Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many saints are there? What are the names of some flowers that make noises while they grow? What is the cost of a U.S. battleship? How many people died in the St. Bartholomew massacre...
...Israel grow...
...Sunday afternoon concerts. He was then 37, and had written 38 operas. But he never wrote another one. His nerves shaken from overwork, he wrote a friend that "music needs freshness . . . I am conscious of nothing but lassitude and crabbedness." He composed little, settled down in Paris to grow fat from his well-stocked wine cellar and his imported bolognas. When friends chided him for being lazy, Rossini replied: "I always had a passion for idleness...
...when he brushes the letter of the law aside and sympathetically permits a Portuguese captain to communicate with "the enemy" (the captain's beloved daughter, who lives in Germany). But it is Scobie's own wife, Louise, who gnaws the hole that is destined to grow into "an enormous breach [in] ... his integrity." Fever-racked, miserable Louise knows too well that though her husband may once have loved her, he feels nothing for her now but pity. And since "it had always been his responsibility to maintain happiness in those he loved," Scobie one day sets his integrity...
Patricia Stenz has flung a bold challenge that she would "grow hair on any person" under the observation of the A.M.A. Should she not succeed, her failure would be well advertised, and her business would probably go under. On the face of it, this is in the noble Galilean tradition of experiment. The medieval thinker, embodied in Dr. Morris Fishbein, rejects experiment and observation, and asserts from his armchair that the thing is impossible. Are the "dead cells" in his scalp, or are they a few centimeters lower...