Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower, life on the farm was deeply and obviously satisfying. But as the days grew shorter, Ike's time was given over more and more to the burdens of office. Last week the President put in his longest single day of work since his illness, and the problems he faced became more vexing...
...Atom. Roy Collins, a middle-of-the-road Democrat who presides over this most active and restless of states, is one of the most interesting and effective governors in the U.S. today. He has his roots deep in the restful Old South. Although he is only 46, he grew up in a Florida as different from today's as the pinewoods around his native Tallahassee are from the palmy patios of the Miami Beach hotels. The Florida he remembers meant the jolt of a single-barreled shotgun on his shoulder and a bobwhite dropping through the yellow winter sunlight...
...first integration problem arose from the fact that the C.I.O. remained not only intact-as planned-but grew stronger. Thirty-one of its 32 frisky industrial unions (4,600,000 members) formed the new federation's Industrial Union Department, headed by ex-C.I.O. President Reuther. To gain a voice in the new I.U.D., 38 A.F.L. unions with 2.672,000 industrial workers quickly signed up with Reuther's outfit. This move was a surprise to the top A.F.L. leaders, including Meany...
This week his guest star will be Kirk Douglas, who will be wearing the beard he grew for his recent movie based on the life of Vincent van Gogh. "Naturally," says Como, "they want me to shave...
Guerard began to split his personality at an early age, for with an American mother and a famous French father--a well-known professor emeritus of history and literature--he grew up with a natural knowledge of both languages and cultures. At the age of ten, he left the schools of Houston, Texas, for a Parisian ecole, which was a "nightmare" and "prison" with its 5:30 a.m. rising bell. A return to America and then another short stay in Europe eventually led Guerard to enter Stanford University, where he received his doctorate after graduate study at Harvard...