Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upsurge reflected increasing voter outrage over constantly rising property taxes, which climbed 48% to 120% in 1976 alone. "Let the politicians sweat to get their money from somewhere else," says Hal Rolfe, a Los Angeles real estate agent whose own taxes rose from $900 to $2,017 on his Topanga Canyon home and from $540 to $1,913 on his nearby office. A divorced housewife in Van Nuys, Phyllis Waldman, now pays $ 1,568 rather than $750; the home she purchased nine years ago for $32,000 was revalued last July at $ 100,000. A retired engineer in Sacramento...
...despite his pre-tournament fear "that I would lose every bout" against the other schools' best epeemen, Kaplan rose to the challenge. Against Drvobinsky he quickly fell behind, 3-0, but then fought back as the overconfident NYU fencer relaxed...
...Sherry-Netherland suite, reached the TV studio on time, politely declined an offer to redo her hair and makeup, and was greeted by the off-putting Siegel with "Hi, hi, hi. And who are you?" She smiled as if he had offered her one perfect rose...
...node of memory, a jumble of sense impressions recorded after the event in the studio and run through de Kooning's habitual signs. Some of his nudes, glimpsed on the beach, have lost the fearsome and iconic look of his famous series of Women; they are rose colored, billowy and amiable. The colors are of astounding brilliance. There can be few colorists alive today who can project, with a few judicious swipes, the same sense of wellbeing. Yet there are plenty of moments when the torrent of hot, sweet pigment - the raspberries, icy blues, or anges and minty greens...
...star general in U.S. history; of a heart attack; in Colorado Springs, Colo. A child of Depression-era Florida and a veteran of the segregated armed forces, James joined in an early black sit-in in 1945, flew 101 combat missions in Korea and 78 more in Viet Nam, rose to be commander in chief of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) before his retirement this month. In answer to questions about his career, James developed a standard response: "I got here because I'm damned good...