Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hans von Seeckt finally gave way, in 1926, to another general, sly Kurt von Schleicher. Under Schleicher, the army was not above, but in, politics. Vain, unscrupulous, he schemed incessantly behind the republic's back. Worst of all, he let Hitler's private army of brown shirts grow to a scrap-happy, unmanageable...
When will the boom end? Probably not for a long time; at the last count, only a fraction of 1% of the available office space was unoccupied. But people who remember Frank Lloyd Wright's prophecy that cities will die and grass grow in the streets are worried about the new office buildings choking the midtown area. Grass may never grow on the streets, but it may some day grow on the roofs of the cars caught in the daily 5 o'clock traffic...
...double-barreled insecticides that attack pests from inside plants. Called Systox and OMPA, they are a by-product of German wartime efforts to produce a nerve gas. If sprayed only on a tree trunk, Systox and OMPA work their way inside so neatly that they protect leaves that grow after the spraying is done. They seem to leave little harmful residue in fruit or vegetable crops...
...near future, the whole field promises to be revolutionized by the effective development of a power plant driven by atomic energy. As military planes get bigger and faster, private planes grow more economical to operate. Since the last war, the booming air transportation industry has aided the airplane manufacturers to swell the volume of planes produced...
...Increase Mather's conscience worked slowly, it at least worked surely. All through the summer, with the witchcraft mania reaching new heights, his doubts began to grow. The earliest sign of his increasing distrust of the trial procedures came in the middle of June when, with several other ministers, he responded to a request for advice from the judges. The group of ministers suggested that the courts evaluate carefully the so-called "spectral evidence"--that given by the afflicted girls of Salem; no one was quite ready yet to dispute directly the testimony of the girls, but their conduct...