Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says Kenneth Byerly, journalism professor at the University of North Carolina. "And a lot of these Negroes do not read newspapers. This isn't the only reason for the suburban dailies' growth, but it is a key factor." Once they are in the suburbs, former city dwellers develop a new set of interests in local schools, sewers, zoning and taxes. "What it all boils down to," says R. A. Bean, business manager of the Richmond Independent in suburban San Francisco, "is that if you don't take the local paper, you can't be informed about...
...degree later (B.A. and M.A. in English at Yale, Ph.D. in linguistics at Madrid, B.A. in Spanish at Puerto Rico, M.A. in Spanish at Middlebury), he took up reading theory at Hollins College and Stanford and then retired to a hilltop in California's Santa Cruz Mountains to develop his books. Distributed by McGraw-Hill, they are now used by 200,000 children in some 2,000 schools in all 50 states...
Continued Franco: "The Soviets may gradually develop their better qualities and eliminate many of their bad points. More contact with the Western world can influence them favorably and induce them to give some freedom to their people and understand the position
Atlanta's Assistant Superintendent John Martin contends that kids in the course develop a new "pride in their scholarship," notes that math and science finally "begin to make sense to them." Roger Derthick, principal of Henry Grady High, calls it "a great motivating course." The FAA is so enthusiastic that it is permitting one of its field men to help Atlanta teachers qualify as flying instructors. Mervin Strickler Jr., director of the FAA education program, contends that "this type of course changes the attitude of youngsters toward excellence, precision and high standards-no kid is satisfied with 70% success...
...massive cases of Burkitt's supermalignant tumor might seem to argue against a viral cause. But doctors now believe that what the drugs do is cure or relieve a viral-induced cancer, after the virus itself may have vanished. Thus they may give the body an opportunity to develop its own mechanisms to fight the cancer...