Word: grow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questing thinker who had mellowed with time. In the process, he modified or danced away from several of his well-documented, iconoclastic views on key legal issues ranging from freedom of speech to sex discrimination. To explain his evolving ideas, he quoted Benjamin Franklin: "The older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment and to pay more respect to the judgment of others...
Anna Cosby also passed along her eccentric way of viewing the commonplace. "She would tell me that if I swallowed the seeds along with the grapes, branches would grow out of my ears and the neighbors would hang laundry on them," Bill recalls. "She would warn that if I kept playing with my navel, it was going to pop out and all the air would spew out of my body and I'd fly around backwards, flopping around the room...
...attraction and chief architect of The Cosby Show, television's No. 1-rated program for three straight seasons, he dominates the medium as no star has since the days of Lucille Ball and Milton Berle. And he has parlayed his TV success into a multimedia empire that seems to grow like the tall tales the young stand-up comic once spun out of his Philadelphia childhood...
...SALT II treaty. But last year the Reagan Administration renounced SALT II and exceeded its limits. The Soviets are free to do the same whenever they choose. Says Spurgeon Keeny, president of the Washington-based Arms Control Association: "Given the U.S. repudiation of SALT II, strategic forces can grow without constraint, and they will soon negate any reductions achieved at the INF negotiations unless a new agreement is reached...
...Baxter's methods are ultimately less frustrating than beguiling. In rewinding his story, the author provides a fascinating illusion of consolidation. Hugh and Dorsey do not grow apart; they are put together again, reknit into their shared heritage of parents and the past. Life does not happen that way, of course, but First Light never seems implausible. Instead, the novel moves over everyday details with the inexorable, contrary tug of memory...