Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sadly dwindled fortune and two gifted sons. Son Christian (uncle of Christian Archibald) became an eminent New York surgeon-biologist, suggested to John D. Rockefeller the idea of creating the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Strapping son Albert inherited the artistic bent, went to Paris to study painting, grew the inevitable beard, married an aspiring American painter named Adele McGinnis, stayed on in Paris as a bohemian expatriate for several years before going home to the U.S. and a prosperous career as a muralist...
Sakaki & Sake. There were 869 carefully selected guests in the outer garden of the shrine, including 37 former peers, Premier Kishi and his Cabinet, a Nobel Prizewinning physicist, the farmer who last year grew the most rice per acre, and only one foreigner-Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, the American Quaker who was the prince's tutor from...
...Pupetta ("Little Doll"). Though northern Italians often deplore the vendetta morality of the south, Neapolitans hailed Pupetta as a worthy descendant of the old Camorra-the "honor societies" hired by noblemen to settle their differences by duels and vendettas. The noblemen have disappeared; today's Camorra members grew up in the thriving black markets of World War II, and boast that they even disassembled and stole an entire U.S. ship piece by piece-from the Bay of Naples.* Among those who lived by the modern Camorra code was Big Pasquale Simonetti, who sold "protection" to the local growers...
...just a ten-year-old in Penns Grove, N.J. when he set his mind on becoming Tarzan-or a movieland version of him. Hanging ropes from the tallest trees around, he spent hours swinging from tree to tree. As he grew up, he even began to look the part-tall, dark and handsome, with awesomely muscled arms and shoulders. At Villanova University, Don Bragg neglected rope swinging for pole vaulting, flew so high, despite his hefty 200 Ibs.. that two months ago he set the world's indoor record of 15 ft. 9½ in. But Bragg remained...
...Karman, whose beautiful crosscourt backhand returns gave Weld a lot of trouble in the opening games, let up just a bit after winning the first set, and that was all the Crimson captain needed. The Tech star was unable to regain his touch, while Weld, who had started slowly grew stronger and stronger. In the final set, he broke Karman's service at love in the sixth game to lead by 4-2, and when Karman pulled up to 5-4, Weld broke service again to win the match...