Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain tossed the new International Court of Justice its first juicy nut last week. It was a tropical product of the days when English pirates set up their bases on the Mosquito Coast and raided the Spanish Main. British Honduras grew out of some of the old bases. But Spain's old captain generalcy of Guatemala owned the land and modern Guatemala claimed sovereignty over the British colony...
...Argentines shipped fewer hides, turned them into finished leather goods themselves. Chileans proudly looked for the label Fabricación Chilena on their tires, even though the rubber and cotton material still had to be shipped in. In Brazil's São Paulo alone, 300 new firms grew up during one year, to make such former import standbys as cotton and wool yarns, rayon, rails, leather goods cellophane, ceramic and chemical products...
Ancient man's evolution into a creature standing on two legs modified his skeleton as well as his habits. The spine curved and grew longer; the ilia or wings of the pelvis flattened out; the last vertebrae became a flexible lever on which the body's weight was poised. But nature added no new muscles to support the upright...
...Silverman fed items to fledgling Gossip Walter Winchell, made knowing muggs out of Jack Lait (now editor of Hearst's New York Mirror) and Columnist Louis Sobol, bought pieces from Quentin Reynolds, Funnymen Fred Allen, Joe Laurie Jr., Milton Berle. As show business became big business and Variety grew, he covered radio and the "niteries," added a Hollywood daily edition and bureaus in London and Paris, picked up scores of stringers in the U.S. and abroad...
...hours the store was sold out. Among those who had waited futilely, frustration grew ungovernable. "The SS are back!" they screamed as the taut police finally dispersed them with flailing batons...