Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Omen of Hope. Born just one week after the Nazis invaded her country and named after the great 14th century queen who extended her rule throughout Scandinavia, Margrethe's birth was regarded during the somber days of the occupation as an omen of brighter times to come. She grew into a shy but fun-loving little girl who, when asked what she liked best about the private school she was attending, blurted: "All that milling around and pushing and shoving in the corridors...
...power of the Mother of Parliaments grew out of its power of the purse, and many a British leader from Gladstone to Macmillan has made a name for himself when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he presents his annual April budget to the House. Last week's Budget Day spotlighted a new Chancellor, the Tories' fourth in four years...
After hundreds of thousands of years of this, the climate grew drier. Tanganyika's lowlands turned arid. The upland lake shrank, but it did not disappear. Up from the hungry plains trooped the animals, and soon ancient men moved in with them. For centuries they lived on the beaches, chipped their razor-sharp weapons and fed on the animals. When the rains came again, animals and men trooped back to the plains. This alternation seems to have happened four times; then the lake went dry. The shaggy men, the giant hippos, the giant pigs and the antlered giraffes abandoned...
...Self-described as "an uncouth provincial boor," he tells a tale of a pair of modern Dick Whittingtons who see London as "the pallid aviary of bank notes flapping their wings in time to the cunning chimes of Big Ben." The London-lured travelers are school friends who grew up together in a town where the pottery kilns were like "giant Burgundy bottles." Their characters are fixed as schoolboys; life, they are told, is competition...
Lost Pounds. Still, with six of his rivals yet to play, Cliburn's victory was hardly assured; indeed, on his U.S. record, he could not have been expected to whip up such frenzy. Born in Shreveport, La., the son of an oil executive, Cliburn grew up in Kilgore, Texas, studied the piano with his mother, a onetime concert pianist named Rilda Bee. He had no other training until he enrolled at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music in 1951 to study with Russian-born Teacher Rosina Lhevinne. He won the Leventritt Award for young pianists...