Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appearances are certainly deceiving . . . Our young people may seem to be rude and insolent. Their manners and morals shock foreign visitors. But they most certainly grow to be the world's most altruistic, philanthropic, idealistic and moral people...
Topperless Tories. In Toryland, where grow mossier mossbacks than among American Republicans or Southern Democrats, there also sprout promising young shoots of a new species, with Winston's beaming approval. Last month handsome Tory M.P. David Eccles, 47, warned the elders of his party: "If the Socialists can successfully identify us with the rich and themselves with the poor, then when the heads are counted, they must win. What sort of party are we? Company directors in top hats with fat checkbooks? What nonsense! There are twelve million Conservative voters. They are easily recognized: the active producers of wealth...
...instruments) handed Price Thomas a cutter something like a pair of rose pruners. With these he snipped a rib. Then he worked around, cut the same rib near the breastbone and removed it, taking care to leave part of the rib sheath intact so that a new rib could grow in. (Adjacent ribs sometimes have to be spread, but not removed, to give the surgeon's hands more room.) The snipped rib was laid in a waste pan for the "un-sterile nurse" to take away. Anesthetist Machray placed a rubber tube in the King's windpipe...
...Listen-I married because I love a warm living human man; my heart and soul wanted to make a warm living human home and grow in it babies, babies made by my husband and me ... Can a putrefied Charlemagne or a mummified Pharaoh protect and love and guide a living child? 'My daddy's three thousand years old. Yeth, we go to thee him in the museum thometimes. We thee hith toe poking out of the bandage, just like my big toe' . . . I am already a craven prehistoric cave woman of 1951. Thank God. At least...
...exist, was being grown only on the surface of a chemical broth at the recovery rate of one unit to 1,000,000 units of broth. Says McKeen: "It was just about the amount of gold you find in sea water." Pfizer worked out a method to grow the penicillin all through the broth by shooting in oxygen, got such a big jump on the other companies that it was the biggest wartime producer. By war's end, all other drug companies had adopted the Pfizer method...