Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December, when Researcher Price finally announced isolation of the virus ("We wanted to make sure we really had a cold virus"). By then, Price was already well along in his experimental vaccination program. Using techniques similar to those employed in developing Salk anti-polio .vaccine, Price and his staff grew JH virus in monkey kidney tissue, killed it with formaldehyde to ready it for inoculation. Though development of JH vaccine seems a big step forward in cold prevention, it is far from a sneeze-ending panacea. Pending further studies, the American Medical Association is withholding judgment. Still to be determined...
...niggers," was the first battle cry as two six-year-old Negro girls in neat green dresses, their hair done up in braids, came into view. "Pull their black curls out!" screeched one white woman. As the Negro six-year-olds tripped quietly into the schools, the crowds grew wilder. A white waitress raised a tattooed arm, threw a rock and hit a Negro woman on the chest. A Negro woman guided her grandchild quietly through a gauntlet of hissing whites until she broke under the strain, undid one button of her blouse and drew a knife...
...were forced to live the lives of Stone Age man and woman in the Australian bush. One was John Graham, a feckless County Cork boy, who was transported for seven years for stealing six pounds of hemp. Assigned as convict-servant to a brutal farmer near Sydney, Graham grew sick and sore at a system by which a man might get as many as 1,600 lashes of a cat-o-nine-tails in a three-year period. He absconded into the bush, preferring (he thought) life among savages to being the prisoner of a civilized state...
...partner, Mifflin Kenedy, made themselves a big stake by transporting cargo upriver by boat as far as skilled captains and sound bottoms could navigate. In 1852 King made an overland trip from Brownsville to Corpus Christi, was fascinated by the lush grass where the Wild Horse Desert grew green along the brush-lined bends of Santa Gertrudis Creek. Soon afterwards, he deserted the river for ranching. By the time the Civil War broke out, Rancher King was spreading his holdings steadily, a business tactic that had been taught him by a lieutenant colonel of cavalry named Robert...
King's herds grew until his Running W brand was known on every cattle trail in the West. More important, perhaps, the land he gobbled up was always legally acquired. He had a talent for picking lawyers. The best of that fine crew was one Robert Justus Kleberg, a young attorney who beat the captain in a lawsuit, was promptly hired by King, and later married the boss' daughter...