Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oxalic acid, it seems, is bad because it eats up calcium that the youngster needs in order to grow strong bones and teeth. If the child is getting lots of milk and has calcium to burn, the result may not be too bad, provided the oxalic salts do not rotate the bladder or turn into kidney stones. But if children are not getting enough milk and protein, spinach just makes things worse by cutting down the calcium available for the bones. As for the good things that are supposed to be in spinach, such as vitamin C and iron...
Since he felt that "an artist must also be a personality," he fashioned a personality of his own. He let his hair grow down over his ears, wore a gates-ajar collar, a flowing tie, funereal black hat, and dropped cigarette ashes all over himself. Aspiring journalists began copying his curt prose and his garb. Said the Manchester Guardian: "He taught Fleet Street that a gossip column should be written . . . with more candor than charity. He got up on stilts to teach reporters how to get off their knees in the presence of the powerful...
...role of reason: "As I grow older I realize how limited a part reason has in the conduct of men. They believe what they want to-and although liable to shipwreck, they very generally get off with a hole in the bottom of their boat and stick an old coat into that...
Fifty years have passed, and times have changed. Boston is back down and Milwaukee is back up to one major league team. Boston has a right to be sorry, Milwaukee has a right to be pleased. But prestige? Let's grow up a little, folks...
Homeless ticks drifting slowly toward the smell of food are rather pathetic creatures, but once they have pushed their barbed beaks deep into blood-rich flesh, they grow fat, conservative and greedy...