Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outdoors to hide in. And he is not talk-ridden, for silence is strength. Says Sociologist Philip Rieff: "How long since you used your fists? How long since you called the boss an s.o.b.? The western men do, and they are happy men." Says Motivational Researcher Ernest Dichter: "America grew too fast, and we have lost something in the process. The western story offers us a way to return to the soil, a chance to redefine our roots...
...when the war came, Montreal lost the look of an English island garrison surrounded by a French shanty town. The city grew into a strategic centre for shipping, communications and the military; prosperity returned to the Calvinists, but only at the price of a middle class invasion from which they never really recovered. At war's end, demobilization in Europe brought a huge influx of refugees--not merely the weary Britons looking for a second chance, but also a dynamic hoard of bright-eyed central and east Europeans. The newcomers, adaptable and eager to make good, often had technical skills...
Svengali & Scandals. Yet, as Hawaii's economy grew, her political structure shook. The French and British poised time and again to annex the islands. (The British actually did, abortively, for five months in 1863, which accounts for the Union Jack influence in the island flag.) Desperately, Kamehameha III appealed to the U.S. for annexation as a state, but failed...
...strong-willed sister of Kalakaua, and, like her brother, a cultivated personage (poet, musician, composer of the famed Aloha Oe). Tough-minded Liliuokalani tried to overthrow the constitution as Hawaii plummeted into the depression that followed President McKinley's punishing tariff law on sugar. Around the rugged Queen grew secret societies such as the Annexation Club, and finally, in 1893, a Committee of Safety took possession of the government office building, formed a republic, applied to the U.S. for annexation. Five years later, to the sound of a 21-gun salute from shore batteries and from the U.S.S. Philadelphia...
...half-dollars he saved grew steadily, and for good reason. Fraiman lived like a pauper. His home was surrounded by his junkyard near Hatboro, Pa., 15 miles north of Philadelphia. He used an outhouse, burned wood in his stove, ate out of cans. He paid a marriage broker only $15 of the promised $50 fee for finding him a wife, on the theory that it might not work out. It didn't, not after she was extravagant enough on one occasion to squander $1 for a taxi ride home...