Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result the railfan never became a dominant figure on the American sociocultural scene. He usually started as a small child who admired the boisterous noises and heavy clouds of smoke generated by the locomotives of some railroad near home. Then he just never grew up, at least as far as railroads were concerned, which is to say he grew up as a railfan...
Browne gave several reasons behind the resistance of many Southern whites. He said that one of these, the fear of intermarriage, stems from the "club-like attitude" of the pre-Civil War South, "where ideas of race supremacy grew...
...tweaked his nose, ran a finger around the inside of his shirt collar, and announced bleakly: "I am particularly happy to be here tonight." The crowd sat silent, waiting. Kennedy continued: "It will be possible for us to disagree as Democrats within our party organization." The silence grew heavier. Kennedy plunged ahead, reading the text of Republican Verger's tricky challenge. Said he: "I accept the challenge. You who have been gracious enough to invite me hererealize that we do not see eye to eye on all national issues. I have no hesitancy in telling the Republican chairman...
...first time since Hungary, the Communists grew bold enough to call a nationwide demonstration demanding "peace in Algeria...
...Trib editorial permitted itself a single understatement: "The case itself is a relatively trivial one." It grew, explained the editorial, out of "certain remarks" about Judy Garland that Columnist Torre attributed to "a CBS spokesman." Now that Singer Garland is suing CBS for $1,000,000 for those remarks, her lawyers need to know−and the Trib will not say&8722;who the spokesman was. Nowhere in its ten-column coverage did the paper report what the CBS spokesman said. The nub of his remarks: Judy "won't make up her mind about anything. We just think...