Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like the idea of Free Choice grant Mr. High his personal right to go to Hell, Heaven or Purgatory in his own way. ... I prefer to try to grow better and happier . . . through thought rather than threat...
...thing wrong with Margaret Rosezarian Harris was that she sometimes couldn't reach the right notes-but she would grow. And her appreciative audience thought that her phrasing, rhythm and pedaling (on extended pedals) were already surprisingly adept for a three-year...
...practices for a half or three-quarters of an hour twice a day, but her mother says, "There's nobody here to get upset over it if she doesn't keep any certain schedule. We want her to grow up like a little girl." Says Margaret: "Sure, I have fun when I practice. I always hope that if I keep practicing, I won't have to take a nap. Don't like naps...
...Recessional. As 400 million Indians (one-fifth of mankind) became self-governing, the British recessional was well begun. From lonely outposts in Kashmir, looking nervously north to the Russian border, from lush Assam where tea bushes grow in the spectral sau trees' shade, from residences deep in central India's jungles, from gay and airy Bangalore, more than 60,000 Britons had served notice that they were leaving the land which had been Britain's treasure and shame, her pride and her increasing care...
...extract many meanings or none. Guesses British Critic Cyril Connolly, editor of highbrow Horizon: "And what are these figures, but expressions of a deeper truth, of cycles of spring and winter, youth and age, death and rebirth, of the Mother who must become our enemy if we are to grow...