Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remembered longer: "Youth is not entirely a time of life-it is a state of mind. It is not wholly a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips or supple knees. It is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions... Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals...You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair...
...understatement of the year, going by the report's own statistics. At $155 billion, the gross national product of Russia and her European satellites is less than one-quarter of the $690 billion gross national product of the U.S., Canada and Free Europe. Soviet production is expected to grow slightly faster than U.S. production (5% v. 4% a year), but even if it doubles by 1970, it will still be less than two-thirds of the U.S.'s present G.N.P...
...fact that the West today needs us as much as we need the West...The Arabs do not have the force to stand against international currents and have no alternative but to depend on others for their own defense." Egypt argued that Arabs should unite and grow strong on their own before joining in Western defense, thereby assuring themselves more influence. Said Nasser: "Our people are still suffering from the complex of foreign domination. Any organization coming from without would be looked upon with suspicion and mistrust...
...years, and perhaps its greatest asset is the fact that it is so fully conscious of how far it has still to go. Slowly but surely, says President Edens, "we are developing an attitude of excellence." Given that ambition, Duke has but one major job to do: not to grow up-which it has done already-but to grow older...
Pusey said that the economic position of educational institutions demanded the support of both state and industry, but that their influence should not increase correspondingly. "This danger is apt to grow as colleges look to government and business for the sustinence they must have to keep alive...