Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist who imagines history as moving in a spiral toward his goal will have no compunction in allying himself first with Hitler, then with Churchill, in the belief that the struggle between them will produce a "synthesis" of benefit to Communism. When a Communist wrecks a labor union or helps a reactionary to power, he is not being cynical but "systematic...
...reiterated his old arguments for Government price controls. He displayed a chart of rising prices. The food line ran clear off the top of the chart-up to 203% from an average 100% in 1935-39. If we don't find some way to stop this awful spiral, the President said briskly, a crash will be the inevitable result...
...long ago, he asked a news photographer to use tissue over his flashbulbs so as not to accent Wright's wrinkles; but the new wrinkles in his architecture are impossible to hide. He crammed the FORUM with diagrams of fresh ideas as seemingly wild as the spiral museum he designed for Manhattan's Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation...
...tremendous demand" which still exists everywhere indicates that no serious downward spiral can begin at this time, Harris pointed out. "This demand will continue to exist, since we are still living in a semi-war economy," he said...
...When Eddie Cochem, St. Louis U.'s football coach, originated the spiral forward pass...