Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...society with its own peculiar codes and mores. A brisk business in forged food-ration cards grew up. UNRWA officials at one time estimated that there were 150,000 more ration cards than there were refugees. Refugee dead were seldom reported to UNRWA authorities; they were buried secretly at night so that their ration cards might be kept and sold. Successful entrepreneurs (i.e., those who amassed sufficient ration cards or who prospered in small businesses like basketry, carpentry, weaving or gambling) began to style themselves "sheiks," demanded that UNRWA officials consult them on community affairs...
Solomon's Throne. Barzilai was delighted. But when his wife grew worse instead of better, he went around to Rabbi Barti again. What he heard this time was even more wonderful. "I have been told by the angels," said the rabbi, "that you are the Messiah, and once this is established you will be able to help your wife yourself." To prove that he was not lying, Barti took an oath on the Torah that all he had said was true...
...leading abstract painters. In Paris, where Riopelle now works, his larger canvases bring as high as $6,000. Working in intense bursts of creative activity (22 paintings last month) and laying on paint with meticulous palette-knife strokes, Riopelle is a moody painter. His Composition in White grew out of a trip to Austria. "The snowcapped Austrian mountains reminded me of Canada," he explains. "For weeks I was obsessed by snow and winter. I finally painted this to get the obsession out of my system. I always try to depict nature as I see it." ¶ Dynasty (opposite), by Kenzo...
Speaking of What? An unreconstructed individualist, Still was born in Grandin, N. Dak. in 1904, grew up on a farm, got an M.A. from the State College of Washington, where he taught art for eight years. As a teacher in the California School of Fine Arts (1946-50), he was responsible, along with Mark Rothko, for developing a generation of painters now making their marks in Manhattan, Paris, Rome. Of his own development, he says: "Each man has to find his own way. Painting forces ideas. A man has to struggle to stand, to go beyond all the extraneous material...
...these reasons, many a financial expert thinks that the U.S. must not only lift the debt limit; it must also change the way it thinks of the debt. When the ceiling was put on, the debt was 130% of the gross national product. But as the economy grew, the comparative size of the debt shrank until now it is only 62% of the gross national product. Thus, the federal debt could be doubled-and the burden would still be less than it was ten years...