Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polio that had developed after use of vaccine made by Berkeley's Cutter Laboratories; it listed the date and site of vaccination, date of symptoms' onset, location of paralysis, age and sex-but not the name-of victims. As the week went on, the impersonal box score grew. The Salk vaccine still meant to most people what it had the week before-banishment of a crippling disease. But suddenly and tragically, its safety had been put in question...
...argued. But Serrano, a short, husky Tarascan Indian, overruled her. "Imagine!" he said. "They pay 80 American cents an hour, 130 pesos a day. We can get another cow or two. In time, a bull. Dresses for you and our daughters." His vision of himself as a bountiful provider grew, and he even talked of buying a farm...
Freud & Voodoo. Dorothy grew up in a family of entertainers, bowed in Cleveland at the age of five in a family act. Eartha was a South Carolina farmer's daughter, and long before she reached Manhattan's Katherine Dunham dance school, at 16, she knew poverty and had a brush with voodoo (she still recalls how voodoo charms were found in the mattress after a relative died). Both Eartha and Dorothy made their way to the top through the nightclub circuit as singers, but think of themselves primarily as actresses. This season both made big acting hits, Dorothy...
...seemed unwilling to believe it. "Ach," he said sadly. "The world is not yet ready for it." As A-bomb led to H-bomb, and the atomic arms race began, he lent his prestige to almost any ban-the-bomb society that asked his sponsorship. Einstein's otherworldliness grew more pronounced. "The wish to withdraw into myself," he wrote, "increases with the years." But though his political forays were often Utopian, his scientific imagination still soared. He had unified the concepts of space and time, matter and energy, gravitation and inertia, yet two great cosmic forces, gravitation and electromagnetism...
...tracker, author of best-selling books on his jungle campaigns against the big cats of India (Man-Eaters of Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag); of a heart ailment; in Nyeri, Kenya. Born into a British family which has been connected with India for 200 years, Jim Corbett grew up in the tiger-haunted Kumaon Hills, tracked his game successively with a catapult, bow and arrow, muzzle loader and .450, killed his first man-eating tiger in 1907. After that he was repeatedly called on by the government to track man-eaters, made his most famous kill when...