Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian soil to feed his people; the output of some agricultural products (e.g., meat, milk, butter) fell below the 1916 levels of czarist days. Last September Nikita Khrushchev admitted the shortcomings of the Stalin program and announced a program of incentives to persuade the peasants to grow more. The Kremlin said consolingly that there was enough bread grain, but Khrushchev complained of severe shortages of livestock, vegetables (particularly potatoes), coarse grain and other fodder...
...started to rise just when business began to contract last fall, now towers above anything seen since 1929. Since September, the Dow-Jones industrial average has pushed 25% higher almost without pause, last week rose to a new high of 328.67 before shading off. What made the giant grow? Is there a giant killer lurking around the corner...
...three kittens." Brushoff. In Memphis, suing Baptist Hospital for $15,000, Grocery Clerk Fred Oliver, 46, testified that he had awakened after an abdominal operation to find that his mustache had disappeared, later suffered "hurt and embarrassment" when, because of a skin ailment, the mustache would not grow back...
...great gathering of monks chanting the scriptures in a similar cave. In 1948 an unknown hermit sent U Nu a walking staff engraved with the words Siri Mangala (glorious prosperity) and instructions to build a pagoda. If the pagoda were finished by 1952, the hermit said, great buildings would grow up around...
Mother McKenzie, vacationing in Italy now worries that such passages may one day disturb her sons, "now sophisticated young Londoners." If they have a good share of her own temperament, she need not worry. They will probably grow up to applaud her for a fine memoir and graceful evidence of a civilized mind...