Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with one big war over, the world looked like a "community of nations" to Elihu Root, and from that fact he took cautious hope. But even then hope had an acid taste: "The [world] community has grown just as communities of natural persons grow. . . . The neighbors generally must govern their conduct by the accepted standards or the community will break...
...just the same as carrying a burden. If we do not give up certain cities when necessary, we would be stuck and on the defensive everywhere. If we threw away these burdens when we should, and let Chiang Kai-shek take them up one by one, his burdens will grow until finally he will be unable to walk...
...eyes for the hurricane that last week swept the Gulf of Mexico's other shore. They watched, instead, a storm gathering over the markets of New York. The future price of henequen, basic barometric reading in the peninsula, was uncertain. The men who grow the cactuslike plant that supplies much of the world's rope and cordage might soon have to dive for the storm cellar...
...mechanicians work in a never-never land far beyond the frontier of practical technology. But Nobelman Rabi compared Lamb & Retherford's criticism of the Dirac theory with Einstein's modification of Newton's laws of motion. It took 40 years for Einstein's relativity to grow into the atom bomb...
...stalks through the dirty corridors of his editorial domain, gaunt, gap-toothed, his black hair tousled and his mouth agape like that of a man who has just established contact with a bad oyster, watching the next issue grow and arguing minute points of fact, taste, punctuation, or policy...