Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...geezer's Porky's. But for the characters' wives and girlfriends (Gwen Verdon, Jessica Tandy, Maureen Stapleton), the spectacle is bittersweet. They realize that at any age, men must be boys, and women must be their sandbox playmates or their strict mothers. Some genders will just never grow...
...blow? A poisoned water supply or a building collapse or a < riot? You ought to have been in In- dianapolis. Professor E.L. Quarantelli, director of the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center, has investigated more than 450 disasters ("One loses track") and expects his work load to grow. "The future will be worse than the past," he declared. "We should not be preparing for nuclear-plant accidents or chemical spills or earthquakes. We should be preparing for disasters, period...
...miles north of the city (I say the city because we all say the city, but if it's not your city I should say New York City). The place and the grounds are a real knockout, and the folks are nuts about plants, which grow in the ground, instead of in pots, where everybody knows God intended them. Andrew Carnegie and guys like that used to come up here and hang around thinking. Right off, without knowing nothing about the weekend, I say to myself this spent nickel is going to go a long ways toward what you might...
...military involvement have been fueled by ominous warnings from Administration officials concerned about the cutoff of contra aid. Secretary of State George Shultz, for example, told the American Bar Association last month that if Congressmen continued to withhold assistance "they are hastening the day when the threat will grow and we will be faced with an agonizing choice about the use of American combat troops." The New York Times printed a pair of articles last week speculating that the Administration was moving closer to the invasion option. "That's foolish," charged White House Spokesman Larry Speakes. "The President...
Actress ISABEL SANFORD (The Jeffersons) at Emerson College in Boston: "I think the most important part of a college education isn't so much what you learn academically, but what you learn about life -- and about yourself -- during your four years at school. You grow up so much during that time. You enter college young, somewhat naive and willing to learn. You leave, four years later, older, wiser and about $40,000 in debt. You have been through...