Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From there on the debate grew hotter and hotter. Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt wanted all Arab states to break off relations with Britain and France unless the invaders pulled out of Egypt at once. But Jordan and Iraq were not yet ready to break with Britain, source of much of their revenues, and Lebanon's Chamoun did not want to break with anybody. The Iraqis let neighboring Syria know that they were extremely unhappy at destruction of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline across Syria. By blowing up three desert pumping stations, the Syrian army...
...causes of the intransigence, the most telling is perhaps the persistent perversion of Gandhi's teaching. Says Vice Chancellor Rai Bahadur Syamnandan Sa-haya at Bihar University: "Students did participate in our political agitations against Britain . . . This psychology which developed and grew for 25 years will take some time to eradicate...
...flood tide of criticism began to subside, ex-Ambassador Joseph Grew, RFE's boss (as chairman of Free Europe Committee, Inc.), angrily fired off a statement charging: "It is an insult to the brave Hungarian people to suggest that they have responded to any other influence than their innate love of liberty...
...took it. A light awoke in his right hand, and it grew and shone, and the hand seemed to come alive and to move, and it reached out and took the bread from the child...
...Churchill's villain. He considers the Lord Protector− who, invoking God's will, ordered 3,000 men put to the sword in one day-a warning to all those who would be willing to kill others in order to improve the survivors. Says Churchill: "A school grew up to gape in awe and some in furtive admiration at these savage times . . . The twentieth century has sharply recalled its intellectuals from such vain indulgences...