Word: soared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buyer has not gone wild. But to top off an extraordinary year-one in which the economy confounded all the skeptics by continuing to soar-few economists or merchants would really mind if the consumer let himself go a bit. That may well happen; year after year people have been spending more on Christmas gifts, and this Christmas the excise-tax cut is apt to increase the volume of luxury buying...
...defense spending to pay for the expanding war in Viet Nam. So far this year, President Johnson has demanded only $2.4 billion in supplementary funds to fight the war, but that figure is virtually certain to top $5 billion by the end of the current fiscal year; it could soar as high as $12 billion a year thereafter. In addition, congressional eagerness to expand Administration proposals for medicare, social security, regional development, education, housing and other programs will add several billion dollars to the Government's original price tag for the Great Society...
Boats Without Brine. Virtually every boat manufacturer has had the same experience. C. P. Leek & Sons Inc., a New Jersey company that built clippers 40 years before Ben Franklin flew his first kite, began making luxury items standard equipment on their Pacemaker yacht five years ago, has seen sales soar from $1,000,000 to $14 million. Its largest model, a 53-ft. motor yacht, offers all the amenities found on Chris Crafts, plus built-in television, bathtub, washer-dryer combination and ironing board, symbols of domesticity that would wrinkle the brow of any old salt...
Rocky Robes. If Sukarno is ailing, he is certainly in no worse shape than his country. Food prices continue to soar. An egg that cost 2 rupiahs in Djakarta in 1961 now costs 170 rupiahs. In the past four months, prices have risen 50%. Sukarno is still grabbing for instant cures. When he was in North Korea recently, he was told that the Communists were making cloth from stones, and he has ordered his own experts to turn Indonesian rocks into textiles...
...tiercel, is smaller by a third. The golden eagle's foot is longer than a man's hand, and its talons are as sharp as a razor. Its eye, a miracle of natural engineering, focuses simultaneously upon every point in its field of vision. It can soar above the highest Rockies and power-dive upon its prey at more than 12,0 m.p.h. Its prey of preference are small animals and large birds, but it sometimes kills a bobcat or a coyote. In Asia it has long been trained to stoop at antelope, and in medieval Europe...