Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain's Dolores Ibarruri, La Pasionaria (now living in France), a miner's daughter and a miner's wife, whose Communism rose from the pits. She grew up amid strikes, riots, unemployment, sudden death. She has two children whom she mentioned in her fiery Civil War speeches urging Spain's women to put the cause above husbands and children ("it is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward...
...Appeal. Eight months ago, De Bernonville grew bolder. He went to immigration authorities in Montreal, confessed his fraudulent entry, asked immigration to forget about it and let him become a permanent resident of Canada. Just then, former members of the French Resistance, now living in Montreal, spotted De Bernonville. They lost no time telling the authorities that as a Vichy collaborator he had betrayed French patriots to the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation...
Louis Quatorze grew bored with minuets; so he started a school of ballet, in 1661. Voltaire himself had sighed over the first ballerinas ("Ah, Camargo! How brilliant you are! But, great gods, how ravishing is also Sallé!"). Ever since, Parisians have gone ga-ga over their Paris Opera Ballet...
...same held for Archibald MacLeish, a boy who grew up on Lake Michigan, who was a captain of field artillery in France in 1918, who had memorably and simply envisioned his countrymen living...
...world" for her work in prison reform and the rehabilitation of ex-convicts; in Great Neck, N.Y. Married in 1887 to the son of the Salvation Army's founder, she and her husband left the Salvation Army in 1896 to found the Volunteers, which eventually, in the U.S., grew to rival its parent organization...