Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than 50 years have passed since Father Andres first came to Granada to take over his parish of gypsies. In those days they were a wild, lice-ridden lot, and their children were growing up to be exactly the same. Father Andres tried to get them to come to the school he had set up in his sacristy, but the children, rebelling at being cooped up, refused to stay. Then, one morning while riding up the hill, Father Andres came across an old woman ex-convict named Maestra Migas leading a group of chanting children through their catechism...
...acres of the company's 300,000-acre plantations at Tiquisate (TIME, March 2). Included in the bite: 125,000 acres of woods and brush, 87,000 acres leased to others for cattle and crops, and 12,000 acres lent by the company to its workers to grow corn and beans...
Soon grass began to grow. Skeptical locals predicted that it would shrivel and die like the short-lived grass that sometimes springs up in the desert. But it kept on growing, and is growing still...
...first subject was one that has been bothering Washington newsmen: his own relations with the press. Newsmen had begun to worry that they would be kept at arm's length by the Administration after Eisenhower warned against any "leaks" from his official family, and otherwise let the impression grow that the press would have to depend on official announcements...
...certain speeds planes grow sluggish and fell out of control for no known reason. Until recently, very little was known about flutter. Now, most aircraft companies have their own "fluttering groups," working along with the aerodynamicists...