Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return to reprisals grew in part out of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's conviction that the U.N. cannot enforce the cease-fire that U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold negotiated last April. Since that time, 29 Israelis have been killed and 49 wounded in border incidents. Last week's shootings brought the number of reported Jordanian dead to 31, and 27 Egyptians have also died...
...most casual concertgoers, the Philharmonic has sounded ragged for the past two years, and the impression grew that nobody seemed to care. Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, 60, a man of great good will and enormous gifts, tolerated sloppy playing-possibly demoralized because the Philharmonic's board often failed to support him in performing modern music, the kind he likes best. The orchestra members, working too hard and denied a hand in policymaking, felt like underpaid hired help. And Manager Judson could not escape his share of the blame. Throughout his remarkable career, Judson had treated music as a business, usually...
...good works of Vittorio grew and so did his piety. He began collecting money for the poor as well as clothes. In his room was a small altar dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua, and he spent more and more of his free time in church, singing hymns and learning psalms. Even on the hottest days he never removed his jacket, considering it indecent to show his bare arms. But his priest, Don Aniello Noto, was displeased to learn that the good boy had been expanding his charity operations. In some of his fan letters he received substantial checks, even...
...been a serious concern of Mrs. Lindbergh's since her girlhood. "When I was young, I felt so small/And frightened, for the world was tall," ran one of her early verses. The poems of her 303 and 403, collected here for the first time, show that, as she grew out of those girlish fears, she also grew to be courageously at home in the world. Her courage is often colored with resignation, she is still looking for answers and praying for strength, but these poems are, on the whole, triumphant celebrations of life, love, death and, through them...
...gave her hostage to fortune in their one child. Wells, who grew up to write a novel while at Harvard, was killed in action as a U.S. officer in World War II, at the age of 27. In his childhood he was shuttled between expensive pillar and posh post (King George V "saluted" him as he rode in London's Rotten Row) until he came to look at his famous father with a cool eye. He would brace himself to lecture him on the evils of drink only to find the unpredictable Hal had become his sober, fascinating self...