Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These angels of mercy did not "grow jittery" or "quarrelsome...
...over her custody when she was a tot]. They never thought of what they were doing to me. . . . Every time I was hurt or lonely ... I wished I had a father living and a mother who loved him and loved me. ... I kept saying to myself, 'when I grow up I'll marry and have a lot of children and I'll love them so much they'll never be lonely or unhappy.' That's what I'm going to dp with our children. I want six, three boys and three girls...
...Manpower. The half-billion acres of fertile U.S. land, where almost any kind of food will grow, make six million farms. Tractors, combines, hybrid corn, better animal breeding-story-book developments-have boosted production 40% above that of World...
...correspondent, visiting a prison camp in India, reported that thousands of captured Italians live in luxury they could never know at home. They tend gardens, sunbathe, play football, grow fat on abundant rations. Miserably paid in their own army, they now receive British Army pay (small compared with U.S. pay). General Annibale ("Electric Whiskers") Bergonzoli, pleasantly housed with several other generals, has been seen lolling along in a native tonga (cart) toward a nearby village, where the captured officers are popular because they have so much money to squander. This situation is altogether proper and legal: Britain is merely observing...
...baker's dozen of women is carefully-perhaps too carefully -varied: a hard-bitten doctor, her tough-as-leather assistant who lives on benzedrine, a hen-brained Southern girl, a vengeful English one, a onetime burlesque queen, a Brooklyn babe, an unconscious Lesbian. Under incessant gunfire, they grow jittery, wisecracking, quarrelsome, valiant. In the last tense scenes, as realistic bombs and anti-aircraft fire literally rock the theater and the audience, the Fifth Columnist holds the other girls at bay with a revolver after the shelter entrance is blocked. At the end the Japs drive them out of their...