Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting grew hot, hotter. At the side of the packed room, a man climbed on a chair, shouted that he represented the U.S. Government. He did. He was tall, husky Lawyer William Gaston, 47, onetime husband of Cinemactress Kay Francis, now U.S. conciliator for New England. He had a "magic formula." He would meet company and union representatives separately-at once...
...deck, the men lounged, bare-armed, in the cockpit. Then, on Nov. 27, 60 miles off Cape Hatteras, the Erma ran into a freezing westerly gale. She was assailed by storm after storm. Sledging seas sent water spraying through her leaking cabin ports. Everything-clothes, shoes, blankets, bulkheads-grew wet with sea water. It was bitter cold...
...Fritz grew up to be musical director of the Dresden State Opera; Adolf founded the famed Busch Quartet. They all left Germany when Hitler's first anti-Jewish law went into effect and have never been back-though of all the family only son-in-law Rudolf Serkin is Jewish. Two unmusical Busches are still in Germany. Says Mrs. Adolf: "We don't even know if they are living, and don't want...
Copenhagen's School Board was startled. Inger Merete Nordentoft, Communist member of the Rigsdag, principal of a large school, and spinster, applied for three months' maternity leave. Board members grew curious. Who was the father? Would Miss Nordentoft marry him? The grey-haired 42-year-old schoolmistress, who had belonged to the Danish underground during the occupation, and had spent five months in a German prison, retorted that it was none of their business. She threatened to sue if they fired her. Already foster-mother of a year-old adopted child, she loves children, says they love...
...smoked cigarets the rest of the time, walked his daily two miles "against the sea breeze," and was 500 pages along on a new novel which he figured would run to 700. Said he: "In my youth I was convinced I would die when I was 40. Then I grew older and older. By experience I learned that it was all a mistake, and now I think I will probably live to be quite...