Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pressure on the White House for Government seizure and operation of the mines grew by the hour. But there was serious doubt about how effective seizure would be. In 1943's seizure, miners had gone back to work after a plea by Franklin Roosevelt. But that was in wartime. In peacetime, the best disciplined union in the U.S.-an organization which makes the oldtime Wehrmacht look like a bunch of uncontrolled anarchists-would probably listen only to John Llewellyn Lewis...
...once-gracious heart. Originally the site of undergraduate dormitories and class-buildings of Georgian structural style, this confine has been transformed by the recurring needs of the past 300 years into a vast architectural pudding, spiced with neat tid-bits such as Boylston and Weld. As the needs grew, the landscaping diminished, the charm receded to three small areas, one of which is to be used for Lamont's edifice. In fifty years of this type of inward expansion, Harvard can expect to resemble any big-city college that has gone over to the drab business of manufacturing college graduates...
...book, which has sold more than 30,000 copies, grew out of six Lowell lectures which Schlesinger delivered when he was only 24. The author is a son of Dr. A. M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History...
...year-olds-headed for Chicago with Jimmy in charge. A very special division, headed by Lord Boswell and Knockdown, checked into Churchill Downs under the watchful eye of Silent Tom, trainer-with-out-portfolio. He silently went about prepping them with workouts over the mattress-soft Derby strip. He grew talkative only when the conversation turned to the New York Commission, and then his speech was an eloquent two words: "Those bastards...
...conversations heard at the age of eight be so precisely reported? It's all reminiscent of the passages in the egocentric Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel:" "Lying darkly in his crib, washed, powdered, and fed, he thought quietly of many things before he dropped off to sleep . . . he grew sick as he thought of the weary distance before him, the lack of coordination of the centres of control, the undisciplined and rowdy bladder, the helpless exhibition he was forced to give in the company of his sniggering, pawing brothers and sisters, dried, cleaned, revolved before them...