Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more he had to deal through Nate Shefferman. who was paying Pitzele's Teamster retainer through the infamous Shefferman Labor Relations Associates firm. Pitzele saw nothing wrong in Shefferman's paying him ("This is an unusual union, and these are unusual people"). But as the Teamster crooks grew fatter, he did begin to see something incongruous in Beck's and Shefferman's pious explanation that the Teamster president was "giving them enough rope to hang themselves." Finally, in 1955, Pitzele suspected they would be left unhung, severed his relationship. Said he: "As an adviser...
McCord himself grew up on a ranch outside Tucson, Arizona, where his main activity was bronco-busting. "We made most of our money from chickens and turkeys, however," McCord added...
...chair, back to the French doors leading to the Rose Garden. Across from him, in the chair usually reserved for Vice President Nixon, sat Harold Macmillan, a maroon cardigan sweater buttoned under his grey sack suit, the stump of a dead cigar in his hand. Their relationship, long friendly, grew closer during the week (although Ike called him "Harold," Macmillan stuck to "Mr. President"). So it was at other levels, e.g, as between Dulles and Great Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (who, after ten rough days in the U.S., preparing for and participating in the conferences, joked...
...Still, Al grew to resent reference to the vulgar necessities of his sort of life. So did his brother, Tough Tony, who ran the Brooklyn piers for him. "Murderer?" Tony once rasped to a reporter. "He kill anybody in your family yet?" Al was proud of his children and became a heavy spender in New York toy stores. He was mourned last week, however, in a very narrow circle. Only Tough Tony gave any public display of grief. When a New York Daily News reporter called him and announced that Al had been shot to death, Tony said: "What...
...Against Death. Son of a Swiss professor of pedagogy, Daniel Bovet recalls: "We children were guinea pigs for testing father's educational theories. It was wonderful." As a boy. he grew mushrooms in the family cellar, cultivated molds in his mother's fruit jars. In 1929 the famed Pasteur Institute of Paris offered Biologist Bovet a job. By 1932 news reached Paris that Germany's Gerhard Domagk had found that a dye product, prontosil could be used to kill bacteria that cause common infections. Bovet and his colleagues at the Pasteur found that prontosil was "a clumsy...