Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want women to grow their own hair," said Madame. "They look like hell while it's growing and just about when it's grown there will be a new fashion...
Bellwether's Topknot. For the short, chopped, overly sleek follower-or victim-of the short-haircut style, the new style was a shock. Even if she moved into a hothouse and buried herself in Vigoro, she couldn't grow a chignon of her own in time to be in style. By no coincidence, the hair stylists were ready with just what the lady roundheads needed: the artificial chignon...
...Alfred Prufrock ("I grow old. ... I grow old. ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"). "The young man in Prufrock" said Eliot, "is meant to signify someone young and sportive and a man conscious of growing...
...greeted with cries of "No Scots! No Scots!" Boswell was so aroused that he jumped up and roared back at the galleryites: "Damn you, you rascals!" But only three months later, he wrote in his journal: "Summer will come when all Scots will be gone. Then you'll grow more English and fine." At his first meeting with Johnson he apologized: "Mr. Johnson, indeed I come from Scotland, but I cannot help it." Johnson's famous reply: "Sir, that, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help...
...these animals turn up in the dining halls, grow fat, and disappear suddenly? One can't be sure...