Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Marshall's admirable career began in Uniontown, Pa. 67 years ago. He was the son of a coal operator, and a collateral descendant of Chief Justice John Marshall. He grew up to go to Virginia Military Institute and become a soldier. He served in the Philippines, fought in France in World War I; as operations chief of the First Army, he won the commendations of his superiors for the way he moved half a million men into the Argonne offensive. General John J. Pershing called him the best officer in the U.S. Army...
...mails were jammed. Butchers grew arm-weary lifting turkeys, chickens, geese and ducks down from overhead racks. Department-store sales, consummated to the recorded rhythms of White Christmas and The First Noël, broke existing records in most U.S. cities...
...committee was stubborn. It wanted the list on its own terms-in secret, behind closed doors. Anderson grew bold. All right, he said, if it had to be that way, he would comply, but he would also" publish the entire list...
...first, Matsukichi was like any other crook. But then he grew softhearted. "When a baby cried in a home I was robbing, I went away leaving the place untouched," he said. He also began to lecture his victims, telling them: "Your house is too easy. You should have lights over your doorway or you should keep a dog." His victims were so grateful that they seldom bore a grudge against him. "I was always filled with joy," he said, "and my heart overflowed with thanks...
...Governor Wallace.' " To keep the Kid from being tagged as an informer, he was (by his own planning) captured, arrested on a charge of cattle-stealing, imprisoned comfortably in the Patron Store. He testified, then grew doubtful of Wallace's promise to safeguard him, and escaped before his own trial...