Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stories grew, Headmaster Miller began to get suspicious. He looked up Christopher's new property on the public school list, found no such place as Marlborough at Mill Hill. After telephoning Christopher's father, he also found that the boy had no uncle and no inheritance. Last week, as Headmaster Miller good-naturedly tried to decide what sort of punishment would fit Christopher's crime ("He broke every rule. But it was all so diabolically clever"), London's newspapers were having a field day. "What a corker!" cried the Daily Express. "Boy's Hoax Takes...
...Monnet's contagious enthusiasm grew the great crusade for Europe, which France's Schuman, Germany's Adenauer and Italy's late great De Gasperi led and fought for. Said one of Monnet's admirers: "If he were put under an anesthetic, he would still keep repeating, 'We've got to create Europe,' as they wheeled him into the operating room...
...investment policies-changes that would mean U.S. loans to produce more industrialization, more opportunity, a better life for the millions of impoverished who dwell in the high Andes, on the lonely pampas, in the green jungles and the crowded cities. The U.S. agrees wholeheartedly with these hopes: they grew in part from the loans-and-aid recommendations of Milton Eisenhower, who toured Latin America a year ago on behalf of the President. But what the U.S. proposes to offer seems to be far short of what the Latin Americans would like. If the Latinos are let down at Rio, their...
Manhattan's 66th National Horse Show grew most exciting when a U.S. Army jeep toted jumps and fences into the ring and pink-coated Honey Craven, ringmaster, blew a fanfare on his long, thin trumpet. The stable owners in evening clothes, the teen-age girls who had come to show off their saddle horses, the grooms along the ringside, now all waited tensely for the real stars: the jumpers. About to begin as the competition for the President of Mexico Trophy, toughest of the international jumping events...
Appearing in a 500-page document mailed yesterday to the faculty, these proposals grew out of a year-long study sponsored by the Ford Foundation to examine the position of behavioral science at Harvard. The report concerns nearly every phase of the fields of anthropology, psychology, history, government, economics, and social relations...