Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government had promised: "Within two years, British housewives will be getting 20 million eggs and 1,000,000 pounds of dressed poultry yearly from Gambia." The idea was that cheap native (nonunion) labor could grow feed for the chicks and harvest the eggs, but trouble hatched early. An American appointed to head the project got $14,000 to buy hatching eggs from Rhode Island Reds. Beaverbrook's Daily Express blew its patriotic top, offered to fly 1,000 day-old chicks or good British hatching eggs to Gambia. While waiting for the local feed supply to be produced...
England is described in later issues as "unrecognizably neurotic Britain, disloyal to the West" and "uncertain friend clawing at a lost liberty of action, and repeating the mentality of Munich." France is the land where "isms in painting grow like hydra heads from the withering body of dollar greed and frustration." The United Nations is depicted as "a typically frivolous 'liberal' improvisation, a pretentious and. . . dangerous instrumentality of world order...
...Myerson called on some rabbinical colleagues in the government to back her up, explained that soldiers were under instructions to cut only side curls infested with lice. "The rule of God is not only to let hair grow," she said. "Cleanliness is also part of the rule...
...later years Johns Hopkins continued to grow (present enrollment: 2,680), but it lost its commanding lead. Since 1949, when he became its sixth president, dynamic Detlev Bronk has been re-examining the scheme of Hopkins education...
...cargo operations. On the silver sides the pressurized, 325-m.p.h. plane was painted the owner's name: "Slick Airways Inc." Said 30-year-old Chairman Earl F. Slick: "For five years we didn't even know if we could stay alive. Now we can't grow fast enough...