Word: surginger
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Few major industries were more savagely battered by the recent recession than textiles, which suffered a loss of sales so severe that production and employment plunged to levels unseen since the dark days of the 1930s. Today the industry is making a stunningly strong comeback. Mills that were operating only...
The bladderball game, for example. This is a form of sport in which three or four thousand Yalies lock themselves inside the Old Campus with a huge canvas ball. There appears to be no object to it except to immerse oneself in a surging tide of flesh, heaving violently in...
Win and Lose. After years of delays, work is finally surging ahead this month on the 798-mile steel boa that will stretch from the wells at Prudhoe Bay to the deep-water port of Valdez (pronounced Val-deez), where block-long tankers will be loaded for the trip to...
Even as Cambodia and South Viet Nam were falling to Communist armies, millions of dollars in U.S. aid to those countries were still surging through the pipeline across the Pacific. The Defense and State Departments acted immediately to turn off the flow: they rescinded letters of credit to recipients, canceled...
The applause descended upon him in waves, surging for long minutes. Woodside turned his back, and began blindly erasing the blackboard in sweeps that seemed meant only to hide his embarrassment. Finally, he turned back, and gestured awkwardly, thanking his students and asking them to stop.