Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Harris grew up on a 280-acre farm in Todd County, Ky., 100 miles or more from Joe Moore's home across the line in Tennessee. By the time he was ten, his pre-dawn routine included milking eight cows and helping feed the hogs and mules. The big breakfast that followed was easily worked off in a three-mile hike to school. Summers it was full time at chopping corn, suckering tobacco, pitching hay. By the time he was eleven he was plowing a mule to a double shovel, and the next year he was allowed...
...throwback; he was, if anything, more progressive than most farmers of his generation. But he one-cropped from the earth its precious skin of humus-filled soil and, when he had finished, left it packed with barren red clay fit only for blackberry briars and bodock bushes that grew in tangled profusion...
...Socialist carpenter, Kaisen went to the party school in Berlin with Wilhelm Pieck, now puppet President of East Germany, grew up in Bremen's Socialist politics, was clapped into jail by the Nazis, released after two months and ordered to stay out of his city. Kaisen went no farther than the bleak moor, seven miles from Bremen, where the U.S. colonel found...
Thieriot, who will eventually fall heir to one-sixth of the Chronicle's stock, is a grandson of the Chronicle's cofounder, Mike de Young. He grew up in San Francisco, graduated from Princeton ('36) and went to the Chronicle as a copy boy. He spent four years as reporter and rewrite man, then moved over to the business side, sold ads, ran circulation and negotiated labor contracts. After a wartime stint in the Navy, where he was a lieutenant commander, he came back as assistant business manager of the Chronicle. He opened and managed the paper...
...Maupassant had an eye for life as clear and wary as that of a Norman peasant eating the good side of a wormy apple. De Maupassant was proud as a boy of his feats of strength, he grew up to be an industrious lover of women, and he died, a syphilitic madman, at the age of 43. He was a great writer...