Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...senatorial colleague shrugged off Taft's almost daily shots from the hip by remarking: "Oh, well, he's running for President." Other Republican Senators were not so complacent; their complaints that Taft was misrepresenting his party grew louder & louder...
Uncertain Days. In the tense final days of the debate, the crowd in the galleries and the speakers on the rostrum alike grew more emotional. Pakistan's Sir Mahmoud Zafrullah Khan, ending an argument against partition, threw back his bearded head and cried: "All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Universe." In his last harangue Iraq's excitable Fadhil Jamali accused Zionists of financing a recent Communist conspiracy in Bagdad. The crowd booed, stamped and jeered...
...visitor asked where the servants slept, my father answered that he didn't know, but supposed it was in the trees." There were only two bathtubs in the house, both in his parents' rooms. The royal youngsters took their weekly tubs in the nursery and, as they grew up, in their tiny bedrooms...
Little mishaps and irreverent remarks continued, but grew less frequent as the festivities narrowed toward the ceremony itself. The crowd began to gather early the night before in favored places near Buckingham Palace and Parliament Square. The crowd was good-natured, a bit rowdy, ill-clad and ill-fed. And, more than in other times, avid for the show that would lift it, not by illusion but by legitimate right, into a symbolic reminder of its own worth. As they waited, chaff flew. When black smoke poured from the palace chimney, a wit said: "Blimey, now they've gone...
...squabble grew so hot that in May Canada's embassy in Washington asked Secretary of State Marshall for assistance in preventing any undesirable interference with Canadian companies. Nevertheless, as late as Oct. 10 bumbling U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark was considering contempt proceedings. Asked for his reaction on such a step, Secretary Marshall pointed out that the affair has aroused "considerable concern" in Canada. That was enough for Clark. Instead of contempt crackdowns, he sent top Department officials to Ottawa to confer with Canadian newsprint interests...