Word: grew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Madras, India, where I was born and grew up, the temperature differential is ten degrees between summer and winter. In the summer it is 90 degrees and above, and in winter it is 80 degrees and above...
...legendary go-go banker. At just about that time, a mood of boundless growth infected Atlanta. Beginning in the late 1960s, the number of apartment building permits swelled 133% in three years; first-class hotel-room space doubled in 18 months; downtown office footage grew 30% in a single year. Lane, now 66 and retired, reflects: "It was a boom city that hadn't felt a recession since the war and thought it never would. And then all of a sudden in 1973 it happened...
...volunteers grew peas, beans, buckwheat and flax, and raised chickens, goats, pigs and cattle. They kept bees in wicker hives for their honey, and traded pottery and baby goats to the film crew for rations of salt and butter. Food storage was a constant problem. At times, the group had to eat maggoty meat and cope with invasions of rats...
Kelly outlined her strategy in the 500. Her main opposition came from a friend from her native Philadelphia, where she grew up swimming. "I knew she went out fast so I figured if I could stay with her for the first 200, she would die. I hoped she would...
...BREDAR was born in February, 1957. His parents moved to Colorado that year and got interested in skiing. "As we grew up," Jim says of his brothers and sisters, "they started each one of us. I messed around on skis when I was five and six; it was hardly skiing. I think the first time I rode a lift I was seven. I loved it right from the start." Jim and his siblings got pointers from their parents and friends, skied scared, skied out-of-control, skied cold, but skied. Gradually, Jim's skiing improved, and he began...