Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the first spring breezes came politics. The hardy old perennial stuck a few tentative shoots above ground, some day to bear laurel or nettle, plums or raspberries. In peacetime or war, fair weather or foul, politics would still grow lushly over the U.S. countryside...
...claimed to have doubled its membership (to 40,000) in two months. The Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury, told a mass meeting in Liverpool and a tea fight in Park Lane that "this feeling that the Soviet Union is the salvation of the world is growing. I want it to grow more...
...when the last bewildered rookie rolls off the train with his lumpy duffel bag, the division is born. Under the barking of the noncoms it grows from infancy to gangling, slack-kneed adolescence. It marches, shoots, gets wet in the field, straightens its legs, grows hard and smart. If its officers and noncoms are on the job, it finally grows up; its rookies become soldiers in less than a year. And each new division knows that many of the outfits on Bataan Peninsula had no longer a time to grow before they had to prove that they had come...
...other cordage, the Hemisphere has a wealth of fibers. Chief commercial ones are sisal and henequen, which grow more or less prolifically in Yucatan, Cuba, Haiti, other parts of Latin America. Exotic fibers-caroa, guaxima, papoula de Sao Francisco from Brazil, cabuya from Ecuador, pita and fique from Colombia-might replace jute and hemp if they could be produced and processed in sufficient quantity (which would involve new machinery, labor, transportation...
...when CCC gets the seed, it must then lure more U.S. farmers to sow it across some 300,000 acres next year, teach them how to grow and harvest it. (But CCC knows of only ten people in all the U.S. who are fully versed in the sensitive art of harvesting hemp: cut too early, the fiber is weak, cut too late, it is damaged.) Thereafter, materials must somehow be found to build 100 processing plants near the new hemp fields, men must be trained to staff them...