Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rose the Senate's silver-haired Majority Leader Robert Byrd, ready to address the crowded chamber. After three months' tireless, tenacious work on behalf of the Panama Canal treaties, he was in a mood for Shakespearean rhetoric. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," he declared. "The Rubicon of decision on the treaties is now to be crossed...
...Marine Corps League honor guard in full uniform marched into the hall carrying American and Marine Corps flags. The sellout crowd of 525 people sang America the Beautiful, then rose and cheered the guest of honor. Proclamations praising him came from the Pennsylvania state senate and house of representatives. Schoolchildren sent their congratulations. Speaker after speaker added encomiums, one of them terming him "the greatest Congressman ever...
Farther south in Tyre, all that remained of a population that once numbered 45,000 was a few hundred aged Lebanese civilians and scores of teen-age Palestinian fighters. Smoke rose from the ruins of a building hit by Israeli bombs. Palestinians and Lebanese dug through rubble in search of bodies. The bombardment seemed to have been indiscriminate, both from the air and from ships offshore. Except for one Palestinian antiaircraft gun on the outskirts of town, no military targets had been hit. The port remained undamaged. What had been hit, and hard, was the civilian dwellings. Was this deliberate...
...development who built and diversified a debt-ridden sandpaper concern into the $4 billion 3M Co.; in Miami Beach. McKnight left his family's South Dakota farm at 18 to become a bookkeeper's assistant in the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. at $11.55 a week. He rose quietly to become president of the company at 41, then chairman of the board until he retired...
After the worker democracy began, "People were more interested in their work, more self-reliant," Harman said. He added, "Incidental to a program aimed at human relations, productivity rose dramatically...