Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to chuck a cast-iron insult at his former brothers-in-labor. Samples: "I have explored the head of William Green and, believe me, there is nothing there"; "a pusillanimous little man who sees ghosts at night"; "the A.F.L. has no head-its neck just grew up and haired over." Furthermore, rumbled old John L., Philip Murray was "innocuous, feeble and namby-pamby," and guilty of "cringing toadyism." For his part, Philip Murray thought (and said only last week) that Green was "an old Fally-doodle...
...bastard child to whom she gave birth two years ago in prison, but showing off her fairly fluent English, she told reporters that she had been writing her memoirs and would have "quite a bit to say about the Americans and the Germans." Reflecting on these lines, Use grew shrill during her interview and accused the press in general of "making money by telling a pack of lies" about her. "Go away," she finally snapped at her questioners...
...Kantian hypothesis. Basing his reasoning on hydrodynamic data, Kuiper concluded that the cloud around the nascent sun passed through a stage with about one-third of the system's matter forming a thin, pancake-shaped disc like the rings of Saturn. The disc, said Kuiper, grew denser and denser until it became unstable and broke into whirling eddies...
...professional burglar, gaunt, nervous Steve Rumnoch had done nicely at his specialty-breaking into houses. His score: 800 jobs, no arrests. But he had been caught four times for breaking into stores, had spent 15 years in prison. Life behind walls was intolerable to him and he grew morose and hopeless in "stir." Nevertheless during his last stretch, 34 months at the Iowa State Penitentiary, he forced himself to plan a better life for the future...
That pretty much happened last week to the Malvolio of Arnold Moss which, after a promising start, grew broader at every appearance. The production in general was forthright, with Frances Reid attractively girlish, even where she should have been boyish, as Viola. If the evening wasn't a great deal of fun, it was perhaps because a forthright Twelfth Night is often little better than a fourth-rate one. The situation calls for magic...