Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settled down in Colorado, crossed the high wire 86 times in all. His children grew up; his wife died. The world forgot him. He was old and arthritic. Three years ago, hungry for applause, he looked up at the high wire still hanging rustily across the canyon, decided to walk it once again...
After Birger's death, the Sheltons grew rich and prosperous, settled down on big farms. Bernie's was called Golden Rule Acres. Last week, Bernie got a fine funeral at Boland's mortuary in Peoria. He was laid out in a $3,000 bronze casket, got four roomfuls of flowers. But it looked as though the Sheltons were cooked. Old Earl was a nervous man; he kept looking sidewise and complained bitterly that the law was giving him no protection...
Only then did the fun begin. An excited crowd gathered before the house and grew by the minute. Half an hour after the polls closed, some of Duplessis' jubilant admirers barged in, woke him, told him that his personal election had been conceded. Said Duplessis: "What did you expect? The trouble with you is that you lack faith...
When science had done so much, what might science not do? In Massachusetts last week, many a fanner and townsman listened to word of the newest miracle, eager to believe. And the wonder grew-for a while...
Almonds & Yearnings. As Boston grew and prospered, even the Puritans began to relax. The wily, pleasure-liking Judge Samuel Sewall, who had been one of the judges at the Salem witchcraft trials, arrived at a more tolerant vision of life, spent his last widower years wooing likely widows, and married three times. In his vivid diary, one of the best mirrors of the social life of his time, Judge Sewall noted his gifts to the Widow Denison: "K. Georges Effigies in Copper ... A pound of Raisins and Proportionate Almonds . . . A pair of Shoe Buckles cost five shillings three pence...