Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the major parties grew shrill in their attacks on each other. Last week, in Frankfurt's Römerberg Square, Socialists and Christian Democrats matched principles and lung power. As pink, plump Dr. Ludwig Erhard, the Christian Democrats' free-enterprising economic boss of Bizonia, started to speak, Socialist hecklers broke into a chorus: "Liar-liar-liar, we are jobless!" Cried Erhard: "I remain confident of the energy and determination of the German people . . . What we need is optimism, not control." This time, cheers drowned out the hecklers...
...streets of Berlin, hope grew thinner, as did the long-familiar, reassuring roar of the airlift planes. The three Western commandants asked their Military Governments to make Berlin a long-term loan of $136 million. Before flying to Washington last week, where he is seeking new recruits for the fast-dwindling U.S. occupation staff, High Commissioner John McCloy promised Mayor Reuter that he would try to get direct Marshall Aid for Berlin. The U.S. expected the city's defense to continue costing money...
...Russian pressure on Berlin grew, so did the stature of howling Frank Howley. The Germans found him fair and understanding, the Russians discovered that he could be neither bluffed nor bent. Under General Lucius D. Clay, Howley became one of the chief architects and symbols of victory at Berlin...
...fishmonger, Hattori grew up in brawling Osaka, the New Orleans of jazzu. At 16, he landed with a boy's band employed by a rich eel merchant to drum up business. By 1925, Hattori was so expert on flute and oboe that the Osaka Symphony Orchestra hired him. But jazz looked more profitable, and Hattori quit the symphony to organize the most famous of early Jap jazzbands, "Hattori and His Manila Red-Hot Stompers...
...potatoes, and gradually added to his holdings. "Potatoes," explains Gehring, "meant rotation. To get steady potato crops, I reached for more land. For a good rotation crop, I chose mint. Mint and potatoes meant irrigation and controlling more land to protect our water rights. So this thing just grew and grew...