Word: grew
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...addition to these, Pusey has appointed the following men to an advisory committee of Harvard alumni: Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; Larid Bell '04, Chicago lawyer; Walter S. Gifford '05, honorary chairman of the board of American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Joseph C. Grew '02, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Learned Hand '93, former judge, U.S. Circuit Court, New York; John Lord O'Brian '96, Washington lawyer; and Eliot Wadsworth '98, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury...
...grew older and somewhat warmer, dates began to arrive by train and trickled from local inns, and one more adventurous couple braved the winds and roads to peddle a bicycle built for two about the campus...
...politician to his fingertips, Nixon is a man of consistent principle, whose values are as sound and fundamental as any in U.S. politics today. The son of a devout Quaker mother and a spirited Scots-Irish father who was a streetcar conductor and then a grocery-store operator, he grew up in the Depression and learned to take his problems head on. Always intense, serious and studious, he turned to government and politics as a boy, worked his way through law school, served as a Navy operations officer in the Pacific in World War II and got into politics full...
...Late Choice: Hungary was in a ferment that only grew with Khrushchev's posthumous "rehabilitation" of Bela Kun and Rajk. Students and intellectuals openly demanded "an end to this present regime of gendarmes and bureaucrats." The Russians sent First Deputy Premier Mikoyan down to Budapest to suggest that Rakosi take a health cure in Russia. The Russian solution: to supplant one gendarme bureaucrat by another. Old-Line Stalinist Erno Gero, the ruthless agent "Pedro" of the Spanish civil war (TIME, July 30), was pushed into the Hungarian leadership in July of this year, and told to clear his "liberalization...
...long years Lamb dreamed of retiring from the East India Company and devoting his retirement to literature. But when at last the dream came true, he found it more nearly a nightmare: he was bored to tears. Mary grew madder, Charles grew sadder-and Londoners became used to the undignified spectacle of drunken Charles being "absolutely carried home upon a man's shoulders thro' Silver Street, up Parson's Lane." nearly falling off but "by a cunning jerk" regaining his balance until "deposited like a dead log at Gaffar Westwood's." He chafed under the increasing...