Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Included in the herbarium are some 15,000 different species of this rare flower, representing all the colors of the rainbow; some with leaves, others without; and some that grow and blossom underground. A majority of the flowers grew on rocks and in trees, but there are some non-wild and common orchids of the type worn in this country...
...sloth can swim milewide rivers. Plants grow on him. A heart, removed from one, beat half an hour. . . . Hummingbirds: there are more than 500 species. They can fly backward. Staple food is not nectar but insects. . . . Fish: bloodthirsty, nightmarishly ferocious, is the footlong, razor-toothed piranha. A school of piranha consumed a whole sheep in 2½ minutes flat. . . . Domestic note: Boa constrictors are used as pets. They are excellent ratters...
...Ships, like men, grow old (but do not necessarily lose their usefulness). In addition to overage but serviceable vessels, which alone would comprise a respectable fleet, the Navy is shooting for a monster, modern, under-age force to include: 18 battleships, eleven aircraft carriers, 6,000 planes, 53 cruisers, 202 destroyers, 88 submarines, 36 blimps (for coastal observation). Then the U. S. indeed would have what its admirals prescribe-a fleet mighty enough to beat any other naval power, friendly Great Britain included...
...thundercloud. No Scandinavian head has lain entirely easy since Russia attacked Finland, but the new danger sprang indirectly from a humanitarian impulse. The world's heart had gone out to the Finns, and nation after nation put out a helping hand. Sooner or later Germany was certain to grow uneasy because of this world hostility to her quasi ally, Russia...
...dock; hoof-pick, body-brush, dandy-brush, sponge, stable-rubber, wisp . . . 'Stables' hour was as sacred as the twenty minutes before the drawing room door opened and nurse came in to say that it was bed time . . ."). And with a dogged, unhurried intensity he makes Tubby Windrush grow up, grow sick of soldiering...