Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reversal of French leftist sympathy, grew out of the recent coal strikes which tied up more than 16 percent of the French Labor force. Socialist and Catholic Labor movements withdrew their support, Grabar added, when they became convinced that the stoppage was prompted by Communist hostility to the Marshall Plan, and not wage demands...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will stick to an unexpurgated production of "Amphitryon 38" despite increased disapproval which grew from the announcement of the Club's stand last week...
...inspired just back of her Brewster, N.Y. house. "We had a pair of yellow ducks," she explained, "and the children were chasing them. All I had to do was put it down. Things often come that way, but of course I understood how the blades of grass grew, from having studied them before...
...July 16, 1945, all the long months at Los Alamos were put to the test in the New Mexico desert. Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell was watching Oppenheimer when it happened; "He grew tenser as the last seconds ticked off. He scarcely breathed. He held on to a post to steady himself . . . When the announcer shouted 'Now!' and there came this tremendous burst of light, followed ... by the deep-growling roar of the explosion, his face relaxed into an expression of tremendous relief." Oppenheimer recalls that two lines of the Bhagavad-Gita flashed through his mind...
...emergency night sessions grew out of Valpey's urge to bring the Big Three (Harvard-Princeton-Yale) title to Cambridge for the first time in seven years...