Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have his old man's squat, thick-knit build. And in the politician's trade, which Joe Martin took up, he worked somewhat in the manner of a blacksmith-a nail here, a nail there, working most of the time close to the ground...
...sailors from the visiting U.S. cruiser Baltimore tangled with Chileans in Valparaiso harbor. Two Americans were killed, several injured, but in Chilean legend the story grew into a Yonqui affront to national honor...
...home support grew yesterday for Professor Harlow Shapley's position in his battle with the House Committee on Un-American activities, his opponent, Repsentative John E. Rankin (D-Miss), gave ground slightly under pressure from his Washington colleagues...
...spirit of American nationalism grew, they abandoned their exclusive commercial attachment with the Old Country, and moved into Cambridge, opening up for business on Oxford Street. In 1932 they folded their tents again, and moved over to Boylston Street, transforming a part of Ofgant's stark, cement Chevrolet showroom into a homely little market of a million items...
...still so shy that she had no friends except animals. Her only excursions were to museums, where she drew fossils and costumes. At home, in the nursery where she still lived, she grew adept at depicting her animal friends in the settings she most missed. Rabbits, ducks, frogs, cats she dressed, on paper, in the human garments best suited to their natures, settled them in parlors of her favorite north-country homesteads...