Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dixon-Yates contract, complex though it was, grew out of a simple set of facts. Memphis urgently needed more power; it had long since outgrown TVA facilities. President Eisenhower was opposed to the continued expansion of TVA, which had already spread far beyond its originally conceived limits. Dixon-Yates was his answer-and it was consistent with his policy of local power development "with the cooperation of the Administration in Washington . . . devoted to the principle of decentralized government and the principle of states' rights...
Falling Peso. The new plan grew out of Mexico's desperate need for utility expansion. A year ago, the entire nation generated much less power than Chicago...
...Star-Telegram grew, so did Carter's enthusiasm for Fort Worth. He once talked so eloquently about the city's future to Publisher William Randolph Hearst that Hearst bought the only morning daily in the city. Hearst was sorry; in less than four years Carter's competition was so tough that he sold out to Carter, leaving only the small (cir. 52,393) evening Scripps-Howard Press to compete with the Star-Telegram (combined morning-evening circ. 246,354). For $300 Carter bought a radio station (which later became the paper's profitable WBAP-TV), then...
...school, he spent most of his time thinking about sex and losing himself in wild fantasies in which he sometimes played several sexual roles. As he grew into adolescence, he began to despise his father, a reaction his mother unwittingly encouraged by making his father look ridiculous. She, meanwhile, intensified her masculine role. Every morning, she wrestled with Jim to get him out of bed; since she won every wrestling match, Jim keenly felt that his was the passive role...
Stimulated by this success, Fawbush and Miller dug through past records looking for weather patterns that had produced tornadoes. As their experience grew, their forecasts improved, and were extended to cover military installations all over the central...