Word: grew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some families left after the police removed foreign television crews and local photographers. But most stayed, opening their picnic lunches, swimming and wading in the water as the crowd grew...
Well, no. All three were products of a deceptively sophisticated professional who grew up with the country, reflecting America's experiences in his music. When the Baline family fled the Russian pogroms in 1892 for the tenements of New York, young Israel was four. The Statue of Liberty was only a couple of years older. His father Moses, a cantor, died when the boy was eight, so he hit the streets in search of work. Izzy sang for pennies anywhere he could find listeners, finally landing a job as a singing waiter in a raffish Chinatown bistro; it was there...
...spirit of glasnost, the USSR agreed to establish a joint commission with Poland to investigate the massacre. This spring, the Polish delegation grew impatient with their Soviet counterparts and announced their findings independently. They blamed the Red Army...
...made a concert tour comeback after eight years, where did she open? The answer every time: Atlantic City. So Painton set out to discover the lure. "The only thing I knew about Atlantic City was that Louis Malle had made a movie about it," she says. Painton, an American, grew up in Paris and attended French schools until college and, like the French director, found the famous U.S. resort something exotic. "I approached this American shrine -- and Atlantic City is one -- with the intense curiosity of a foreigner," she says...
...Attorney Lehtinen, 43, grew up in Homestead, next to the park, and was appointed federal prosecutor for South Florida in June 1988, just when George Bush was campaigning for the White House by promising "no net loss of wetlands." An Army paratrooper who was badly wounded in the face in Viet Nam, Lehtinen was a Democratic state legislator when he married a Republican colleague, Ileana Ros; a year later, he switched to the G.O.P. Last month Ileana Ros-Lehtinen won election to Congress to fill Claude Pepper's seat. As a legislator, Lehtinen earned a reputation as a hot-tempered...