Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from his heart attack in Denver's Fitzsimons Army Hospital. Settling back in his plane seat, McCann began to scratch out in pen and ink the first, 400-word outline of the State of the Union message. He put down five subject headings: 1) "World Responsibility," which later grew to "The Discharge of Our World Responsibility"; 2) "National Security," which became "The Constant Improvement of our National Security"; 3) "Fiscal Integrity"; 4) "Our Production Plant," for which the President substituted "To Foster a Strong Economy"; 5) "Human Resources," which became "The Response to Human Concerns." McCann checked his outline...
Protection from Drafts. His parents, John Hague, a blacksmith, and Margaret, came from Ulster's County Cavan _and settled in Jersey City's Horseshoe district (so named because the railroad tracks made a loop there). In a frame tenement house he grew up, a sickly child who became a strong and healthy hypochondriac. During his years of power, he rode on the hottest days with all his car windows closed tight to protect him from drafts. Vain, and fearful of age, he did not like to have photographs taken that showed his bald spot or his wrinkles...
...cries for Sir David's scalp grew more and more shrill. The executive committee of the Educational Institute of Scotland demanded his resignation, and the schoolmasters of Leeds did the same. In Birmingham, a mass meeting of teachers recommended that all official functions attended by the Minister be boycotted...
...turn away, father took me by the hand and ordered me to 'keep my eyes open.' Father forced me to approach the dead man and to touch his cold foot. Tremblingly I obeyed. Then father said: 'This man died for freedom.' " 33,333 Lines. Nikos grew up to study law in Athens and philosophy in Paris. Returning to Greece in 1914, he published the first of his nine novels. He has traveled in Spain, Russia, England, Egypt, China and Japan, and written books on all of them, together with philosophical treatises on Nietzsche and Bergson...
...atomic-powered plane, considered a far-off dream only a year ago, was progressing so fast that the optimists predicted one would be in the air within three years. And the airplane industry itself, the second biggest U.S. industry (750,000 employees), grew on a chain reaction of defense and commercial contracts. As the year neared its end, the commercial jet age was dawning. The U.S. grabbed the lead in the production of the new 575 m.p.h. airliners just as it had led the world in piston-engined planes. From 13 airlines, both U.S. and foreign, Boeing already had orders...