Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effective than it was in the igth century, because the rise in the standard of education will not have kept pace either with the dilution of the electorate or with the increasing complicatedness and technicality of public business." In less experienced states, Toynbee suggests, an even greater gulf will grow "between democratic form and bureaucratic fact...
...little Catskill Mountain village of Tannersville, N.Y., the theater's most famous Peter Pan marked her 80th birthday. Maude Adams, who was delighting Broadway 47 years ago as the little boy who didn't want to grow up, now lives in quiet seclusion, seldom seeing friends or neighbors, as she works on her memoirs...
Finally: "Restraints or bitter drugs applied to the nails do little good. Some children grow to enjoy the taste of drugs; others turn to biting other parts of the fingers...
...brighter-than-average, tense type, who bottles up his emotions. (Dr. Girdany's patients did not kick and scream the way many kids would if offered a "barium breakfast," but suffered in silence.) Such children may carry their ulcer troubles into adult life -so that tense little tykes grow into big, tense tycoons...
...Merriman ("Thank you, Mr. President") Smith knows as much about presidential press relations as any man in Washington. This week Correspondent Smith gave the "new President of the United States" the benefit of his experience, and issued a "friendly warning" to him to watch his step. "You may grow to hate us as some of your predecessors did," writes Smith in the current This Week. "You may try to use us as whipping boys and punching bags. If things don't go your way, you may attempt to destroy public confidence in us ... It can be a pleasant relationship...