Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pumpkin got bruised, the white mice grew too fast and had to be replaced, and the director did not dare use a real coach-and-four because Cinderella and most others in the cast were afraid of horses. Otherwise, rehearsals were proceeding pleasantly in a big Manhattan TV studio where Broadway Showmakers Rodgers and Hammerstein and a cast of stars are preparing a lavish musical version of Cinderella. For a close peek at how a TV spectacular is put together, see TV & RADIO, Rear View...
...promptly began boycotting his classes. They were not so much outraged by what the professor had said as by the picture that the Times had run showing some of them in his class. This, they insisted, compromised the whole college. During the next two days the sense of outrage grew, until all the students on campus agreed that unless Professor King resigned or was fired they would leave the school...
...Laius in the Greek myth was the father of Oedipus. Laius tried to kill his son in infancy, but the boy grew up and killed his father instead...
...Watch. But as his confidence grew, so did his ambition. He published a booklet, The Philosophy of the Revolution, which French Premier Guy Mollet calls Nasser's Mein Kampf, but the comparison with Hitler is unfair: Nasser came to power bloodlessly and, though a dictator, conducted no bloody Putsch of his political enemies. In his book he talked about Al Umma al Arabia-"the Arab nation"-which would extend from Cairo and Damascus to Baghdad and Amman, and of a role in the Arab world searching for a hero. It was a first warning to the few who read...
...freed Nasser from the restraints imposed by the West's balance-of-arms policy in the Middle East, and in every village and sook from Tangier to Baghdad he suddenly found himself hailed as a hero who had bamboozled the Western colonialists. His Voice of the Arabs grew increasingly shrill, demanding the blood of every Western imperialist, sowing hatred for the French throughout North Africa. He sent arms to Algerian rebels, fomented terrorism against those Arabs who would cooperate with the French in Morocco and Tunisia, offered hospitality to exiled leaders in Cairo...