Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Based on" Lynn Riggs's folk play, Green Grow the Lilacs, Oklahoma! chiefly concerns the struggle between a good cowboy (Alfred Drake) and an evil hired hand (Howard da Silva) over a fetching farm girl (Joan Roberts). The cowboy's triumph is delayed by a perversity of female behavior pretty glaring even for musicomedy, not to speak of a brand of villainy pretty passe even in Wild West films...
Sample episode: the time is Oct. 23, 1942. The place is a stretch of desert before El Alamein. Two armies face each other which for two months have been recreating themselves in manpower and in material. The last preparations for combat intensify, and grow quiet. In blank black, a calm voice speaks: At Zero-minus-thirty the barrage begins. At the same moment the sappers will move for ward. . . . At 10 o'clock the infantry will advance. In quiet and darkness a single file of helmeted sappers goes up the line; next, bayonet-bearing infantry, slowly, then faster. These...
...folk who have had a lifelong itch for cows, chickens and the smell of manure. Such purchases have boosted prices 15% since 1940; the trend is still up. There is a newer reason for buying farms now: people want to eat, and one good old-fashioned way is to grow food...
...Eugenics Education Society (1911-28), he energetically plumped for eugenic reforms, which he saw as Western civilization's safeguard against "slow and gradual decay." He also devoted himself to correcting misconceptions about his famed father, a windmill-tilting job. In 1934 he commented: "As I grow older, my faith in the veracity of mankind gets steadily less & less, and now, in my 85th year, is small indeed...
...longer than Anthony Adverse. Unlike Anthony, it will remain within the confines of the U.S. On its huge canvas, readers will see the gradual steps of the opening up of America. The primeval forest will give place to the forts of the first settlers, the forts will grow into villages, the villages into cities and towns...