Word: skyrocket
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Main point of dispute was whether prices should be allowed to go up again or not. No. 1 advocate of price dictatorship was ex-Baruch-aide General Hugh ("Old Ironpants") Johnson. Said he: "You can't stop a skyrocket advance in prices of everything merely by tying prices of a few things to the ground. There is only one way to do this job. That is by fiat. ..." William Trufant Foster was just as gloomy, told hardwaremen: "I was on the Consumers' Advisory Board of the NRA and found it was window dressing. . . . The Government...
Lastly, striking improvements could be made in the cheers. The new "skyrocket" cheer has done little but fizzle to this date. The "echo" is a disastrous division of a cheering section which needs concentration of is lung-power above all else. In contrast to these is the effectiveness if the musical cheer--the trumpet motif followed by a "fight!" --which was copied from New Hampshire. A few instructive evening with the New Hampshire co-ed yell leaders might be an excellent and readily-accepted requirement for the Crimson leaders...
...Marx reasoning. When he states quite correctly that "enrollments in the U.S. Army are greater than every before in peacetime," Marx forgets that it has been the impending passage of the conscription bill--and now the actual passage--which has been a major cause of the skyrocket in volunteering. That is, many of the recruits have joined up in order to "boat the draft" and get into the unit of service they prefer while they still have a free choice...
...starts," muttered Parisians as they watched the streaking Nazi bombers, plainly visible in the skyrocket glare. The first raids spared downtown Paris, but heavy concussions rumbled from the suburbs. Long after the Nazis were gone most citizens lay doggo in the shelters until after sunup. Then suddenly all Paris clanged and tinkled as abandoned alarm clocks went off in empty flats...