Word: grew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depicts those Jews who went quietly to the slaughter as well as those who tried to resist. He reminds the audience that a few Jews even curried favor with their German captors and that the Allied powers (the U.S. included) stood idly by as evidence of the Holocaust grew. At the end, he touches on the awesome guilt of the concentration camps' survivors...
...chief became more popular, the mayor grew increasingly unhappy with him. Finally, Hongisto touched off a public feud by charging that Mayor Kucinich was pressuring him to do "unethical things." Kucinich retaliated by giving the police chief 30 hours in which to prove his charges and then fired Hongisto when he missed the deadline. Two hours later, Hongisto described in detail six abuses, among them an allegation that the mayor had obstructed his efforts to clean up the vice squad. Cried Kucinich: "He's concocting these stories so he can exit as a hero." Hongisto then proposed that...
...color photographs of discarded fetuses, has big black words: HUMAN GARBAGE. "Did you know this is how big you were when you were only eleven weeks old?" the pamphlet asks. "From then on you breathed [fluid], swallowed, digested and urinated ... No new organs began functioning after that. You just grew more mature...
...epidemic of kidnapings in Western Europe, the French government had established a firm policy of refusing to lay low during negotiations with kidnapers. Once it became apparent-from the sole ransom demand of $8.6 million-that they were dealing with professional criminals rather than political radicals, police grew bolder than ever. Though the Empain family was willing to pay off, police set up a phony ransom drop on a highway near Paris and ambushed a team of kidnapers who tried to retrieve the funds. Three gunmen escaped, one was killed and another, Alain Caillol, was captured. A few hours later...
...Jerome grew up in Houston, 50 ft. above sea level. He saw no real mountains until his late teens. Once he did, he was hooked. As he notes, those who are raised in hill country frequently take mountains for granted, as the Swiss did until they realized that other Europeans would pay to climb and ski (and occasionally fall off) their peaks. Others may be terrified of heights, like the 14th century travelers who went through the Alps blindfolded, lest the horrors of the tortuous scenery drive them...