Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move up to the enemy on a front only about 20 miles wide-but about 80 miles deep. It would then dispose itself not in lines, but in densely packed islands. Nearest the enemy the islands would be minuscule: just isolated machine-gun nests. Farther back the islands would grow into larger machine-gun clusters, field-gun emplacements, antitank batteries, then larger pools comprising whole battalions and companies, then huge field fortresses (built by sappers in from two to five days) surrounded by smaller islands, finally huge dispositions of reserves...
When things grow tense in Japan, somebody often takes a shot at a political big shot. Five of the 18 Premiers Japan has had since World War I were assassinated; a sixth, Admiral Keisuke Okada, saved his life in the Army revolt of 1936 by hiding in a steel vault till he nearly smothered, disguising himself and mourning at his own funeral (TIME, March 9, 1936). Last week things were tense in Japan and the big shot-at was horse-toothed Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, 75, onetime Premier and currently Vice Premier and Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet of Prince...
...gave them public schools. But they did not move away, like their Amish cousins, who went to Maryland. They muttered louder when draft officials sent their pacifist young men to camps for conscientious objectors. But when AAA sent its agents in and told them how much wheat they could grow on their fertile acres, the Mennonites decided they had stood enough. They held a meeting, agreed to emigrate to the free frontier soil of Paraguay...
Largest single group (20%) of boys want to be air pilots when they grow up. Only 4% want to be President. More girls would rather be a nurse than a movie star. Only 2% chose housewifery, although one declared her ambition was "To Be a Great Housewoman...
Though the Vatican will not hallow Hitler's war on Stalin as a crusade against Communist unbelievers, the Roman Catholic Church is not letting any grass grow between the advancing German troops and the first wave of Catholic missionaries sent out to win the occupied districts of Russia for Catholicism. Since 1927 the Holy See has been training workers at the Russiacum College in Rome to "preach, strengthen and defend the Catholic faith among the Russian people." Last week the Vatican reported that the first batch of missionaries had already reached Hungary and Rumania en route to their...