Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sackcloth Smocks. At Auschwitz, Anne's long hair was clipped and her eyes seemed to grow larger and larger as she grew thinner. Her gaiety disappeared but not her indomitable spirit. The women were divided into groups of five and, though the youngest of her group, Anne became its leader, partly because she was efficient at scrounging necessities. When during cold weather she and the others were reduced to sackcloth smocks, Anne found somewhere a supply of men's long underwear. She even magically produced a cup of coffee for an exhausted prisoner...
...younger men had rowed off to the fishing grounds, the old man clambered along the rocky shore to the cove and cast toward the reef. Always the eel snapped the line or bit through it, and slid back to its underwater cave. As month followed month, the eel grew fat on Ivica's bait...
Racing Luck. It is probably part of Willie Hartack's racing luck that he came up when he did. It is certainly part of Willie's racing character that he grew up as he did?under the heavy hand of a hard-working coal-mining father...
Just a year after Mrs. Hartack died, the shack where Billy grew up burned down. William Hartack was finally forced to move his family from Colver to his father's 300-acre farm near Belsano, Pa., where Black Lick Creek runs down the western slope of the Alleghenies. Young Willie did his share of farm chores, took the bus to Black Lick Township school, found time to play the drum in the school band, and got into enough extracurricular trouble to be a regular visitor at the principal's office. "I didn't like girls much then," says he, almost...
...Split. Wolsey created an apparatus of state about his King-the framework of a modern national administration. Henry himself grew under the cardinal's tutelage-one of the King's first diplomatic coups was a pious book presented to the Vatican, which won him the title still borne by British monarchs: "Defender of the Faith." Said the King's jester, wiser than his cardinal: "Prithee, Good Harry, let thee and I defend one another and leave the Faith alone to defend itself...