Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Alcock, his passengers and three of the crew were carried overland to Juba, and from there the crestfallen pilot was recalled to London while thrifty Sir John rushed salvage engineers to the jungle. In three months, despite jungle fever, they completed repairs, and in July, when the Dangu rose to flood, they prepared to take off. With her four giant engines scaring up a bright cloud of fluttering parakeets, the patched Corsair lumbered majestically downstream. Before she rose, there was a disheartening rip and she tore her bottom out on a jagged rock...
...investors; its primary concern has become conservation rather than expansion. This shrinkage has of course been a world-wide process, affecting not only universities, but business and government, in fact, the entire economic structure. Still, endowments continued to trickle in, and in the course of New Deal recovery even rose of half the pre-depression figure. But the tendency of the decade was clearly to freeze in the investor...
Then Comrade Ben Gitlow rose to speak. He knew he was licked. But he knew U. S. workers were not quite ready for a Bolshevik revolution. Again he pleaded that Stalin not completely hogtie U. S. Communists with Russian foreign policy. Concluded Gitlow: "Not only do I vote against the decision, but when I return to the United States, I will fight against it!" Followed a moment of heavy silence; then a low whewing whistle of collective shock...
...torchlight to ape Old Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...
Crane, who rose to fame as the nation's leading manufacturing of plumbing, traveled widely through Europe after the War and was struck by the charm of the Russian bells. On his return to this country he offered a set to President Lowell who, grateful for a chance to add a little English atmosphere to the Cambridge scene through the means of a bit of change-ringing, accepted...