Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King's front porch. By now the great majority of Montgomery's law-abiding citizens realized that almost any solution was better than that offered by the terrorist minority. With every new outbreak of violence, inevitably followed by a reassuring word of nonviolence from King, white opinion grew stronger for accepting bus integration in an orderly way. The bus fight was to all practical effect, over...
Born in Hungary two years before the publication of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, Von Neumann grew up during the scientific breakthrough that produced the quantum theory, nuclear physics, the atomic and hydrogen bombs. After studying and teaching at leading European universities, he came to the U.S. in 1930 to teach mathematical physics at Princeton, moved on in 1933 to join the Institute for Advanced Study. He became a U.S. citizen...
...cover the losses, investigators found, Cage bought up small industrial plants and pumped their profits into ICT, listed questionable assets, at least once reported a loss on a business deal as a profit. Board members finally grew restless with Cage's free-wheeling management, fired him last February...
...Long Gray Line creeps forward with its study cards, as the sun, elsewhere, sets toward the 5 p.m. deadline. In the foreground, a baby, which was born and grew up before the last of the students had reached the doors of University Hall, gurgles quietly in a Scotch Plaid stroller. The student rushing off in the background had arrived early but spent most of the afternoon looking up exam groups. Those who did not pass the doors on or before 5 p.m. were charged the traditional ten dollar fine. The fine, in the past, has been added to the tardy...
...Jews of Dallas (pop. 650,000) are largely descendants of early settlers who grew up with Texas, never bunched together in the little quasi-ghettos most early Jews formed elsewhere in the New World. Eleven of them banded together in 1872, in the dusty prairie town that was Dallas, to organize charity and conduct high Holy Day services. Four years later they had become the Jewish Congregation Emanuel, comprising 32 families. Today there are 1,500 families in Emanuel, the dominant Jewish congregation in Dallas. Its leaders include Banker Fred Florence (Republic National Bank), Papermaker Lawrence Pollock (Pollock Paper Corp...