Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Nations Organization is our best hope. ... [It deserves] the best that is in us of intelligence, forbearance, farsightedness and faith. . . . We must give it things to do, so that its muscles will grow strong by exercise...
...dweller on the Riviera, he hoped to return "in about a year," meantime dwelt in Manhattan with handsome, Greek-born Wife Atalanta (the former Countess Atalanta Mercati), Son Michael John, Daughter Venetia. Now 50 and quite grey (but with wavy and slickly groomed hair), Glitterateur Arlen was trying to grow a stomach to earn the children's respect. Said he: "In my house everyone goes around nude ... so everyone peers at me, looking for the corporation. But it's not there...
...take last things first, Miss Rand's reception presents an interesting study in audience reaction. Oglers who are alive and responsive during the hammy vaudeville that precedes the graceful unveiling suddenly grow cold when the fans start waving. A strained, perhaps embarrassed, hush falls over the theatre, Sally scarcely gets a hand...
...alumni committee to consult on postwar plans. Amherst is heading toward a system of carefully integrated freshman and sophomore years, more freedom for upperclassmen. An inveterate gardener, President Cole's prime worry at the moment is his new formal, presidential garden. "It's not the kind you grow squash in," he says. "More suitable for lawn parties...
...ruined streets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are now filled with Japs who have small tufts of hair beginning to grow back on their slick pates. Temporary baldness is one symptom of radiation injury. A variation of the injury was discovered among a herd of red cattle grazing some 50 miles from last summer's test bombing in New Mexico. Radioactive dust settled on their backs, turned the red hair white in small splotches...