Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those women who, like Penelope, have the sense to stay home or go back to it and keep busy, preferably at a war job, are apt to find adjustment easier. But others, particularly those recently married or childless, often develop pathological reactions in the form of physiological disturbances, resentment against the husband, inability to recall the husband's face or to sense the reality of the married state, vague fears of infidelity. Most susceptible are "orally demanding" women, those requiring constant assurances of their husband's devotion...
...There are always plenty of time servers and men with good intellects, but with little imagination and less ambition, and these men alone might well fill our graduate schools of arts and sciences unless we are on guard. But from such a crop few professors will develop who can nourish and inspire the students one and two decades hence. From such a group few original investigators or scholars will arise to enrich the stream of civilization by their discoveries and their thoughts...
...ready for self-government again, proposed instead: 1) Newfoundlanders be allowed to elect three members of the six-man commission now ruling the country; 2) substantial grants by Britain to put the country on its feet; 3) a ten-year plan to build up neglected social services and to develop resources...
Rundstedt's plan by now was clear. He had made a historic throw of the dice and his prize was time. If successful in disrupting the Allies' armies, he could win six months-six months to scrape up combat manpower, while German scientists and technicians hurried to develop their new V-weapons...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's screen presentation of Lieutenant Ted Lawson's bestseller, "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," is a sincere and restrained record of heroism in this war. Director Mervyn LeRoy wisely lets the dramatic quality of Major General Doolittle's remarkable feat develop naturally, unmarred by overdone Hollywood heroics...