Word: tenfold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan. Convinced that the growing demand for books could best be met through mail-order sales (few people were near bookshops, he reasoned, but everyone was near a post office), Scherman in 1926 founded the club with Maxwell Sackheim and Robert Haas; initial subscription was 4,750 and jumped tenfold within a year. Scherman guided the company's expansion into phonograph records and art reproductions; at his death the club boasted 1,000,000 members and annual sales of $40 million...
Present drug laws are inequitable as well as widely unenforceable. Most statutes do not distinguish hard narcotics from marijuana, or the pusher from the user. Arrests for marijuana law violations last year totaled 80,000; they increased tenfold between 1963 and 1968. Yet, for all the massive expenditures of police time and money, pot smoking is so widespread that there are roughly 25 times as many users as there are places to hold them in all the nation's prisons. The chances of being jailed for using pot are probably less than one in 1,000, NIMH's Dr. Cohen...
...moment or two in his epileptic condition almost before the fit itself . . . when suddenly amid the sadness . . . his brain seemed to catch fire at brief moments, and . . . his vital forces were strained to the utmost all at once. His sensation of being alive and his awareness increased tenfold at those moments which flashed by like lightning. His mind and heart wear flooded by a dazzling light. All his agitation, all has doubts and worries, seemed composed in a twinkling, culminating in a great calm full of serene and harmonious joy and hope, full of understanding and the knowledge...
Taiwan's main effort is built on sharing its own hard-won know-how in intensive rice and vegetable cultivation. In the Ivory Coast, for example, Chinese experts have managed to increase rice output tenfold per annum in their pilot plots. But technical help is also extended in fisheries, engineering, medicine and peanut-oil production...
...artillery to catch up. Such tactics, or at least the attitude behind them, are not confined to Nigeria's federal troops; they are commonplace with most African armies. Moreover, federal commanders have built up an army to match the scale of their weapons orders ?almost a tenfold increase on their 8,000 regulars. Inevitably, the volunteers included unemployed youths and street-corner thugs who planned to serve most of their hitch looting towns and shaking down civilians. They also included a share of vengeful Northern tribalists eager to settle old scores with the Ibo tribe. The songs they chanted...