Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, by a 77-to-0 vote, ratified four treaties setting up more humane standards for the treatment of P.W.s and civilian internees. The treaties grew out of the 1949 Geneva Conference, were presented to the Senate in April 1951, but had gathered dust there ever since because of the Korean...
Shortly after he arrived at Huntlands, Johnson complained of indigestion and asked for some baking soda and water. While other guests went swimming, Johnson retired to a couch in an upstairs room. But the pain in his chest grew worse, and a local doctor was called in; he spotted the trouble immediately. An ambulance was called and Johnson was taken to the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda...
...biggest individual fortune yet made in Alberta oil grew bigger last week. Eric Lafferty Harvie, 63, a Calgary lawyer whose oil earnings to date are estimated at more than $120 million, sold control of his Western Leaseholds Ltd. for an undisclosed price. The buyer was Compagnie Financière Beige des Petroles (Petrofina), a Belgian company with worldwide holdings which is rapidly building and buying its way into a top position in Canada...
Cracked Plate. Arthur Mizener, Fitzgerald's biographer (The Far Side of Paradise), told how Scott and Zelda expected nothing but joy out of life and quarreled bitterly when they were disappointed. "We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promises of American advertising," Zelda once said. "I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail, and that mud will give you a perfect complexion." After Zelda became ill, Fitzgerald said. "I left my capacity for hoping on the little road that led to Zelda's sanitarium." He wrote her: "Do you remember before...
...screamed 'Hell-divers!' I looked up to see three black enemy planes plummeting toward our ship. Some of our machine guns managed to fire a few frantic bursts at them, but it was too late. The plump silhouettes of the American 'Dauntless' dive bombers quickly grew larger, and then a number of black objects suddenly floated eerily from their wings. Bombs! Down they came straight toward me. I fell intuitively to the deck and crawled behind a command post mantelet...