Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, Saris & Co. had received 12,000 letters. Last week ten high schools sent delegations to the U.S. embassy asking that letters be forwarded to Mamie Eisenhower. As the snowball grew, the U.S. Information Agency stepped flatfootedly into the picture. "Stripped of its emotionalism, distortion and heated charges," said the U.S.I.A., "this city's much publicized 'kissing incident' essentially becomes a question of the rehabilitation of two problem boys and their families." It quoted the vice president of the local N.A.A.C.P. as "not certain that the training school is not the best place for the boys...
Senator Carlos Lleras Restrepo shot 63 questions at Rojas in 60 minutes. Rojas made stumbling replies. The general was unable to show that a company he formed to carry out his moneymaking deals while President had ever paid taxes or kept books. When asked how come his personal fortune grew so fast when he was President, Rojas replied: "Gifts from Colombians and foreigners...
...Whenever people came up and went itchykoo at him, Alexander would lie back and bark like a sea lion." He was born to wealth. His grandfather, Robert M. Cushing, was an old Boston tea merchant. His father was a talented painter, died when Alec was four. Young Cushing grew...
...Treasury issues now yield more than 4%. Furthermore, future Treasury issues may meet only a tepid reception, because Government bond yields are now bumping against the top legal limit of 4¼%. As the bond market, led by Government issues, drifted downward, the "spread" between bond and stock yields grew still larger; highest-grade corporate bonds now yield an average 4.2% v. 3.3% for the Dow-Jones industrials. Rarely in the past 50 years have stocks yielded less than bonds for any length of time except in 1927-29, when the rising stock market kept stock yields under bonds...
Kindly Stygian. Betjeman's nostalgia is for the Victorian past; his heart is in its poor remnants, and he frankly calls himself "a case of arrested development." He was raised comfortably in London, great-grandson of a Dutch-descended Englishman who grew rich on inventions such as the tantalus, a contrivance to keep Victorian housemaids out of the port. Betjeman went to Oxford's Magdalen College, where he detested his tutor (Author C. S. Lewis), failed to get a degree because he forgot to take "divvers" (divinity...