Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governed. It is a fact that revenue and expenditure figures often measure the power of government. Throughout the growth of the New Deal, when new federal projects and jobs were pouring out of Washington, the power of the state and local governments dwindled while that of the federal bureaucracy grew. In 1955, along with their taxes and their expenditures, the relative power and importance of state and local govern ments are rising...
...heartbreaking Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, freshly disengaged from his fourth wife, Five and Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton. In tragic tones, Mama Gabor explained: "In Paris now they are having their last farewell. She can't marry Rubi, the darling boy, because he's so jealous." Then Mama grew more plausible: "Zsa Zsa will be a very big shot in Hollywood and in television. She would have to give that up to marry Rubi." Earlier in the week, Zsa Zsa (exwife of Turkish Bureaucrat Burhan Beige. Hotelman Conrad Hilton and Cinemactor George Sanders) confided to a New York Post...
...this discomforting atmosphere the Student Council's recent parking report comes as a welcome clarification. As the Council points out, the University's toleration of undergraduate cars grew out of the traditional policy that students deserve the same rights as other local residents. Thus the College has limited its automobile restrictions to the single rule that a student must register his car with the University Police. This requirement is reasonable and necessary, but it has often been violated during the past year. To end these infractions, the Council would increase the penalty for failing to register an automobile with...
...terror were more successful missionaries. At the sight of the ragged friars padding doggedly through the mountains, the Indians sighed, "Motolinia, motolinia [Poor, poor fellows]." Generations of such brave, tough motolinias from Spain finally converted Mexico.* But on the Indians' simple faith, the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico grew fat and feckless. Prelates exacted tremendous fees, gobbled up land and abused their ecclesiastical powers, e.g., one archbishop excommunicated a group of pulque brewers for adulterating their product. Republican thought was ruthlessly suppressed; following the American Revolution, the church censored all discussion of the U.S. Constitution...
...idea grew on Manet. He painted it big (7 ft. by 9 ft.) and proudly submitted it to the official Salon, which refused it. But the Emperor Napoleon III ordered a special exhibition that year of works the Salon had turned down, and Litnch, exhibited at the Salon des Refusés, made Manet notorious-as an eccentric. "A commonplace woman of the demimonde, as naked as can be, shamelessly lolls between two dandies dressed to the teeth," exclaimed one critic. "I search in vain for the meaning of this unbecoming rebus." "Is this drawing? Is this painting?" cried another...