Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain seemed to accept the news as the day grew near. What no one said officially, all seemed unofficially agreed upon: barring some unforeseen change, one day this week 80-year-old Sir Winston Churchill will proffer his resignation to his young Queen. Thus, after 52 years in the House of Commons, 28 years a Minister, Sir Winston will take leave of the post to which he has added such luster. In his place his faithful lieutenant, Sir Anthony Eden, will be summoned to kiss the Queen's hands...
...Alter Ego. The vision came to pass, and Churchill, proven right, was the man to grapple with it. He sent for Anthony Eden, and during World War II there grew up a phenomenon unique in English political life: the Churchill-Eden partnership. Back at the Foreign Office, Eden was the P.M.'s friend, his faithful alter ego ("We thought alike even without consultation," wrote Churchill gratefully). He designated "dear Anthony" as his heir apparent, and together they weathered the Tories' postwar exile from the government bench. Eden's chief role was to act as mediator between...
Shouts & Rumbles. The Catholics began to worry. When Minister Collard proposed last December to reduce the parochial-school subsidy by $10 million, to $82 million (v. $170 million for the secular schools) the Catholics' worry grew into ire. "I found that parents in some cities had no choice but to send their children to a Catholic school because there were not enough state schools," Collard -said. "It was our duty to open more state schools . . ." Last week, when the government invoked and won a vote of confidence on its subsidy proposals, Catholics all over Belgium rallied into protest action...
...were invented long before "to fix the calendar and to determine the times of planting and seasons of harvest and the religious ceremonies which accompanied them." From these primitive astrological signs, the Chinese built up many of their own characters. Other civilizations apparently evolved a sort of shorthand which grew, in spite of cuneiform and hieroglyphics, into an alphabet. The very meanings of the symbols seem to bear this out. In Hebrew, for instance, the second letter of the alphabet. Beth, means "a house," or "a daughter." The second lunar symbol in Chinese means "a woman.""a daughter." The shape...
...care for her Benedetto went hungry and in rags. In the hospital Maddalena grew worse, and wrenching spasms of pain made her scream again and again "Ammazzatemi! [Kill...