Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strike Three!" The Castro adulation grew. Appearing one night to accept a gift machete and to toss an inning of exhibition baseball for an army team, Castro marched to the mound in high spirits. A onetime sub at the University of Havana, he unleashed a wild fast ball, got a friendly reading from the umpire. With the count at 3 and 2, Fidel whipped a high, hard one over the batter's head. "Strike three!" the umpire said...
...ramshackle Chicago laboratory, an earnest, imaginative young scientist named Emil Grubbe gazed at the greenish glow coming from a Crookes vacuum tube he had made. He put his left hand on the tube. It was warm. Grubbe (pronounced Grew-bay) was satisfied that the tube (useful only in scientific experiments) was working right. By summer's end, a severe skin irritation appeared on Grubbe's left hand. Dermatologists had no idea what it was. Then Grubbe heard that, from similar tubes, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen had generated a new and mysterious form of radiation-X rays. "I knew then...
...Books. Season after season, the joint was jammed. The Hawk's mascots -pigeons living in a coop right above the men's room-grew fat and happy. The fees that the club was able to pay for its jazz acts rose from less than $300 to more than $3,000 a week. Even after the Nogas sold their interest in the club last year to Max Weiss, secretary-treasurer of San Francisco's avant-garde Fantasy Records, nothing really changed. They did try to straighten out the chaotic books, but it was a foredoomed effort. Accurate accounting...
...Bill Castle, who grew up in a "nice nontheatrical family" on Manhattan's Upper West Side, such electronic promotion is mild. In 1939, in his hopeful, pre-Holly-wood days, he found himself running a straw-hat theater in Stony Creek, Conn, with a German actress, Ellen Schwanneke, on his hands. Business was bad, but Hitler saved the show by inviting Ellen home for a festival. She refused, and Bill billed her as "The Girl Who Said No to Hitler." Then one night he broke every window in the theater and scrawled swastikas on the walls. "We opened," says...
Budget Pinch? While Mitchell grappled for the facts and a position, the steel impasse grew in bitterness. When 19,000 Bethlehem Steel workers in Lackawanna...