Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adolf Hitler called them the "Order of Good Blood," and gave them for a symbol a grinning death's-head. In ten dreadful years, they butchered millions, making good their master's boast that men should "grow sick at the sight of [their] black coats." At Niirnberg, before the court of world opinion, they were forever condemned for crimes against humanity. Yet last week the SS (full name: Schutzstaffel) marched again, jack boots ringing on the cobblestones of the garrison town of Verden in lower Saxony...
...motorcades in the chill wind, the 2 a.m. platform appearances seem to have left no mark on him. His voice is only slightly hoarse (he yelled lustily at the Army-Columbia football game). His enthusiasm for talking to people and exchanging views with them seems to grow. He has coined no great phrases, although some Ike sentences pack a weighty punch. Samples...
...tipped barbers at the Palace Hotel $5 for a 75? haircut. But Guatemala, nettled by the Eagle's noisy revelations of their dealings, last week broke off its purchases. Julian, now 55 ("and all bone and muscle-feel my arm!"), took this reverse manfully. "I'd grow old if I didn't get slapped down once in a while," said he. Then he headed back to his home in The Bronx...
...heroic hope ... If we creak, the world will groan. If we slip, the world will fall. But if we use our right of initiative and of decision without bombast or bluster, if we use it with clear heads and steady nerves, we shall rise in strength and grow in majesty and the world will rise and grow with...
...Acheson talked, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky followed the English text closely and three times underscored Acheson's remarks. The underscorings: "The aggressor [in Korea] now counts for victory upon those of faint heart who would grow weary of the struggle . . . We shall fight on as long as is necessary to stop the aggression. We shall stop fighting when an armistice on just terms has been achieved . . . The Communists have so far rejected reasonable terms for an armistice...