Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Egypt's diseased, half-hungry fellahin adored Safsaf, and with their support he became chief of the powerful Wafd Party and five times Premier of Egypt. Zouzou cashed in on the adoration. In the reign of Farouk the self-indulgent, she grew into a well-corseted, fur-and diamond-bearing woman of property...
...rule. Reprimanded, he shot back: "We are Spanish Communists, not Russians." He was read out of the party. Even his own Communist daughter attacked him over Radio Moscow. A few months ago, learning that a fellow ex-Communist had been tracked down and killed by Red assassins, Comorera grew a beard and fled Toulouse for Paris. Then he decided that a return to his homeland was a lesser risk than staying in France, and he had himself and his wife smuggled across the Pyrenees...
From the lack of legitimate news grew a crop of eye-popping rumors. The "entire air force," said one, had taken off to join Castillo Armas in Honduras. The army's chief of staff was dead or, alternatively, arrested. Wildest of all: 8,000 soldiers, led by Russian officers who had arrived in submarines, were dug in on the coast to fight off the U.S. Marines...
...centuries before and after King Xerxes camped there with his Persians waiting to do battle at Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the plain of Anthele lay bleached and barren. No trees grew to shade its parched acres from the relentless Grecian sun; no water flowed over the bank of the winding Sperchios River to wash them clear of salt and alkali. For generations, no local farmer even bothered to put his plow to the 9,000 useless acres of the plain, and even those who worked the stingy lands on its edge were forced to content themselves with only the scantiest...
...Express is a postwar journalistic oddity. Confident, alert Editor Servan-Schreiber got the weekly off to a fast start a year ago by printing in its second issue a parliamentary report on Indo-China that the shaky government had asked other papers not to print. L'Express grew steadily, now runs some of the leading writers in France. Editor Servan-Schreiber is a friendly critic of U.S. foreign policy, bridles at being called a "neutralist," and says his basic political idea is: "If the Western nations achieve unity, they will win the cold war . . . On one side we have...