Word: grew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more sentence and I knew I was finished. I had to create a diversion to facilitate my escape from the Honeymoon Hotel. I was desperate. Thousands of question marks, tiny little things, filled out into a cloud over my head. The cloud grew darker and darker until it produced a rumble and then a flash. I had it! A clever ruse to get her out of the room while I practiced my six-story leap into a waiting convertible. In a few short hours I'd be home, where my only thoughts of sex came when my mother boiled zucchini...
...often, in trying to make Malory understandable, Steinbeck explains away all the magic, substituting psychology for enchantment, and sociology for mystery. The frequent analysis of motivation, such as "When he (Lancelot) was confronted with treachery, Lancelot grew frightened, and only then could be cruel," are glib and gratuitous...
Much of Burt's reputation rested on his prominent role in the debate about heredity and intelligence. His studies of identical twins who grew up apart indicated that heredity-rather than environment-explains most of the differences in IQ scores. But shortly before Burt's death in 1971 at the age of 88, there were academic murmurs that the psychologist's data were suspect. For one thing, the statistical correlation between IQ scores of his identical twins remained the same to the third place after the decimal point as more and more twins were studied-an extraordinary...
Much has changed in the 16 years between our first Christmas card and my first Christmas card. For one thing, the card industry, which grew mightily during the 1960s, seems to have stabilized. My cards this year will go through the U.S. mail with about 3 billion others. The $20 or so I spent on cards-$5 above the national average-will be mixed in with $750 million spent by other Americans, plus $390 million for postage at 13? a lick; stamps account for more than half the 25? spent (on average) per card by every sender. The statistics...
Kiernan's portrayal of the Palestinian movement is a sympathetic one, and in showing how Arafat's role grew out of the frustrations of his early years the study is in a sense sympathetic towards its protagonist--although the reader is not left with a particularly warm regard for Arafat. Kiernan's treatment is admirably detached and well-balanced--his critique of Arafat is implicit rather than blatant...