Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children, no church, no mosque. But it does have three hotels (650 rooms in air-conditioned cottages), two movie theaters, two swimming pools, an airport big enough to handle Caravelle jets, and 124 private firms, including an automatic laundry and a lemonade factory. Between the buildings green lawns grow in topsoil trucked in from Algiers. In its three staff dining rooms white-jacketed waiters serve meals worthy of a three-star Paris restaurant, from pate to four kinds of cheese...
...luggage in a neighbor's car and crossed the border to Switzerland ("Of course, I had a false identity"). Two days later he was in Algiers, whipping up the crowd with shouts of "Vive De Gaulle!" and working behind the scenes to ensure that the insurrection did not grow into more than he intended it to be: a threatening gesture that would frighten France's reluctant party politicians into accepting De Gaulle on the general's own terms...
...Australian aborigines wear practically no clothes, grow no crops, live by hunting and berry picking. Their major art consists of rock pictures of spirits called Wondjina. First painted centuries ago, the paintings are "touched" (i.e., repainted) by the natives each season to bring on the rain. But at Munich's Ethnographical Museum last week hung copies of a much older and almost unknown aboriginal art. discovered by the museum director, Andreas Lommel, in the Kimberley district of Northwestern Australia. Smaller, more naturalistic and far more elegant than Wondjina art, they date back at least a thousand years...
When Beerbohm Tree was first faced with producing this tale of "the boy who would not grow up" in 1904, he attempted to defer the production, feeling certain that Barrie had gone quite mad to have written such an escapist play. The show went on, however, and with overwhelming success. The character of Wendy set a new fashion in children's names: and many youngsters believed in Peter's magic so thoroughly that they broke limbs while attempting to fly like him. (In case you are concerned about the latter, Sir James soon announced that one had to have Peter...
...Homer, was comparing "apples and pears." Republic's White called his company's second-quarter record "to a major degree a result of robbing business from the third quarter." Such profits, he said, must be "the regular order of business" if the industry is to modernize and grow, compete against foreign firms and other materials at home. But the industry's argument did not stem the union's expected attack. Cried Steelworkers Boss David J. McDonald: "The astronomical profit figures completely demolish the excuse the companies have used to force this shutdown. How can they possibly...