Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Letters from Home. Next day he called a press conference about the Communist go-slow campaign. "It is inhuman," said Sandhurst-educated General Thimayya in precise British accent. "As long as India is responsible, I cannot permit this to grow." Thimayya thought the explainers should get through a compound of 500 P.W.s a day or "forget about those who are not explained to." If the explanations stalled altogether, Thimayya implied, he would use his own troops to give the P.W.s a fair hearing...
Paint Every Two Years. For all its fiscal stability, Portugal is still a poor country where initiative withers in the gloom of resignation. The people who grow Portugal's olives, make its port, strip its cork, net and pack its sardines, mine its rich wolfram ore deposits, live in limpidly beautiful villages with white-painted cottages (a 1949 Salazar decree requires a new paint job every two years) amidst some of the world's grandest scenery. But Dictator Salazar has never balanced his people's household budgets. Poverty and disease are widespread. Illiteracy...
...accident-prevention poster showing a flourishing plant with petal-like human fingers. The legend: "If you can't grow fingers-grow careful...
...into volume production for the retail market two years later. Today, Sunkist's processing business nets more than $36 million a year from juices and frozen concentrates. Even the waste is used to make such citrus byproducts as citrus pectins, citric acid and lemon oils. Florida grows more oranges, but California and Arizona have the lemon business practically to themselves. Sunkist grows 82% of the nation's total, is converting poorer-grade orange orchards to lemons by grafting lemon branches on full-grown orange trees. Though oranges are still the biggest part...
...been said that these scandals should have been hushed, lest they impair the football community's morale for the Yale game. The real danger lies in secrecy, for in secrecy commercialized attitudes and practices could persist and grow into bigger, more damaging scandals. We believe the football community is true enough to its traditions to cleanse itself of these attitudes and practices without any effect on its morale. It needs only a pressure from the Administration and the other students to do so quickly. There can be no sanction to any student making a profit out of Harvard football...