Word: grew
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...Rico, heavily concentrated in the corn belt states of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana (the Farm Bureau is sometimes facetiously called "The American Corn Bureau"). President: roughhewn, painfully serious Charles B. Shuman, 49, an Illinois stock and grain farmer, and a teetotaling Methodist Sunday school teacher. The American Farm Bureau grew out of the agricultural recession after World War I, aligned itself with the relatively low stopgap subsidy policies of the Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s, saw the ruinous results of subsidized surpluses under the Truman Administration, has since-under the influence of its efficient, prosperous Midwestern members-generally supported Republican...
Outside the Soviet Union a vast literature, topped by Koestler's Darkness at Noon, grew up around the explanation of why the Old Bolsheviks had made Stalin's leap to absolute power easy by confessing (whether it was true or not) to a conspiracy against him. It was conjectured that they had done so 1) for ideological reasons, i.e., to preserve the monolithic party front, or 2) because their consciences were poisoned by the common guilt of Communist intrigue, or 3) to indicate obliquely, by admitting the incredible and fantastic, that they were being murdered. Later study...
...little kid, he was something of a weakling and a crybaby. Even after he toughened up to hold his own in boyhood brawls on the vacant lots of Brockton, Mass. (pop. 65,000), Rocco Francis Marchegiano had little taste for fighting. He dreamed of big-league baseball, and he grew up to try just about everything else-ditchdigger, dishwasher, candy mixer, truck driver, snow shoveler and, in 1943, soldier. In the Army, Marchegiano discovered that as a soldier he made a good prizefighter. A civilian again, he tried amateur boxing, and did so well that he turned...
...overwhelming "lust" for any kind of stimulus or action. In spite of his intention to keep perfectly still, he made surreptitious swimming motions or stroked one finger with another. Such small delights gave him great satisfaction. He found that if he denied himself all such stimulus, the tension grew unbearable, and he had to get out of the tank for relief...
...Secret. The school grew out of a complaint made by General Henry ("Hap") Arnold during World War II. Too many officers, Airman Arnold said, know too little about the needs of the other services. In 1943, the Government set up an Army-Navy staff college to help the two services understand each other better. In 1943-45, Washington brass began to think it might be a good idea if the services and the State Department also understood each other better. In 1946 they set up the present National War College (named by then Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower...