Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ability to improvise. They must be able to pass at any time and take immediate advantage of an opponent's mistakes. This awareness grows with practice, and the backs have now become a quite mobile unit. The teams highest scorer, Langy Kaviliku from Tonga, and O'Neil, who grew up in Dublin, are both excellent passers. With center David Holmes they pose a big problem for the opponents...
...cast struggled energetically with their parts, but except for Arthur Papas' amusing role, everyone grew wearisome quickly. Alvarez Bulos, as the king, had some difficulties with lines, but otherwise was deft and urbane. As his daughter, O'Brien Nicholas looked and sang as prettily as usual. Betsy Peterson Spiro, as the first wife, brought off her torch song effectively, complete with sultry advances toward Master Perkins, who was lucky enough to be in the first row. Harvey White and Mai Brigitta Milk handled the Eunuch "without an operation" and the "paradox" as cleanly as possible. Mr. Rinzler, except...
...Arequipa in the southern Peruvian Andes, Olmedo was riotously paraded, speeched and kissed. He got time for only one much interrupted lunch at the little apartment on the International Club grounds where his father is combination caretaker and tennis professional and where "Alejo"-as he is called at home-grew up. Over his favorite dish, roast guinea hen, his mother sighed, "We have not seen much of you, and now you are leaving again. But I will be brave and will not cry." That afternoon, as she stood waiting for the plane that carried Alejo back to the University...
...from the mainland on the ice. With no hunters and no predators, the moose multiplied unchecked, and by 1930 had nibbled the forests bare of browse. Then came a great die-off; the big herds of feeble, emaciated moose declined until there were only 200 survivors. When the browse grew back, the moose herds grew with it-but then another die-off came around...
Throw Out the Clichés. From all over the world the letters poured in (one addressed simply to "Gilbert & Sullivan Purity Champion, Oxford"). As her fame grew, she took to rapping the prestigious productions of the D'Oyly Carte troupe (a recent D'Oyly Carte Gondoliers, she announced, was "shocking: Marco came on wearing jodhpurs"). By last week Crusader Alderley had 500,000 signatures to bolster her parliamentary petition...