Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hair grow long and talk Punjabi," said the young soldier to Kim, quoting a Northern proverb. "That is all that makes a Sikh. " But he did not say this very loud...
...population growth and its food supply. A 51-day stay in Iran was long enough for a team of U.N. water experts, using light aircraft, to locate 50 new wells; Thai farmers, after learning from FAO experts of techniques developed 'n the Canary Islands, can now grow pineapples as a year-round crop...
...plumbing; his father was a light-boned, slightly effeminate weakling who talked in a high-pitched voice. Jim's older brother was a perfectly normal, completely masculine boy whom Jim worshiped. When Jim was born, his mother wanted a girl, kept him in dresses and let his hair grow until he was four, later taught him to do girls' household chores. As Jim grew up. he learned to please his mother by playing her game, wore her clothes around the house and put up his blond hair in curlers...
...Patterson's diet for the Farm Journal has made it grow every year since he took over. He threw out the magazine's ponderous, technical farm features, replaced them with over-the-fence news for farmers. To separate his rural but non-farm readers from farmers, in 1943 he bought the newsweekly Pathfinder, later changed its name to Town Journal (circ. 1,592,615), and reset its editorial sights to lure small-town nonfarm readers. To increase Farm Journal circulation, Publisher Patterson and President Richard J. Babcock, 43, started three regional editions, printing specialized news and information...
...biggest single consumer of water is irrigation, which has spread from a few thousand western acres in 1850 to some 30 million acres, sprawled over such eastern and southern states as Delaware, Rhode Island, Mississippi. To grow a bushel of corn by irrigation requires about 10,000 gallons of water; to grow a ton of alfalfa hay, about 200,000 gallons. At present irrigation soaks up about 100 billion gallons of water daily, almost half the water withdrawn by the entire nation...