Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew up in the big house on the hill at Nacozari, playing baseball with the Mexican kids, learning to ride and rope. Rawhide Jim was a stern father who trained Lew to independence and hard work. Once, to discipline him, his father sent him over to a wrecked schoolhouse and ordered him to "take every last nail out of every last board...
Outside, the lonely pastoral scene grew dark. People began to leave. In one corner of the visitors' gallery, a pair of earphones lying on a chair continued to buzz. The translator's voice, like some angry insect, was a reminder that to carry physical communication to the edge of the perfect did not advance understanding, much less agreement...
...Devil's Work. The Devil got around in New Orleans. Sometimes he even got into politics. In 1893, a baby boy was born in the righteous, Bible-pounding hill country north of the city. He grew up and sold a patent medicine for ailing women, worked his way through a three-year law course in eight months, and ten years later ran for governor. He was the people's darling. He was going to make the rich share their wealth with the poor, and make every man a king. His name was Huey Pierce Long and the people...
...City Hall. There I was warned that Communist shock troops were on their way over. We waited, and soon heard the rumble of the mob outside. Then, one by one, we heard the doors of the City Hall crash open as fiendish howls of 'Death to Carlini' grew nearer...
Byeways. He lived as befitted a Randlord. He acquired a stable of 30 horses, raced them in England. "Byeways," the Erleigh estate north of Johannesburg, grew along with New Union Goldfields. A swimming pool was built, then a small theater...