Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party was an invaluable prop to his dictatorship. Founded in 1949 and force-fed on government funds and jobs, the party grew to 3,000,000 members. Working against divided opposition and favored by winner-take-all election laws, the Peronistas were eventually able to name all but twelve of the 200 legislators in Congress. By party statutes, Chief of the Movement Perón passed on all candidates and party leaders. Charged the decree that dissolved it: the party "served unconditionally all the deviations, violations and arbitrary acts of the former ruler...
...hospitable air, rent with cheers and scented with roses, Nikita Khrushchev grew expansive. "I have seen reports which say that we have come here with a motive-for the purpose of exploiting things," he said with a broad Slavic smile. "I would say to these people that we are quite willing to compete with them for the friendship of India." With all the talent, affability and wile at their command, Soviet Communism's two traveling salesmen plunged into the competition last week. In legislative halls and banquet rooms, at ancient shrines and new construction projects, in plush drawing rooms...
...jealous separation of church and state, its warm, free form of worship-all had strong appeal for the kind of man most likely to succeed on the new continent. And so the cantankerous, nonconformist, freedom-worshiping Baptists and the cantankerous, nonconformist, freedom-worshiping Americans took to each other and grew up together...
...Kayser grew worried about his men hunting gas on the Colorado Plateau while everyone else was panting after uranium. '' "If you didn't want them to get the fever," says Kayser, "you inoculated them with a little of it." The inoculation consisted, of forming a new company, Rare Metals Corp. of America, 55% owned by El Paso, 18% by Western Natural Gas Co. (an I affiliate) and 27% by officers and employees of the companies. Rare Metals opened a mercury plant in Idaho this fall and will have a reduction mill finished in Arizona late next spring...
When asked how her garden grew, Mary did not always give the same answer. At least once she replied: "With silver bells, And cockle shells:/ Sing cuckolds all on a row." And in Nancy Cock's Pretty Song Book, published around 1780, the row of cuckolds may be seen in a pretty woodcut, horns...