Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These men were only the seeds of a contingent the Administration knew would grow with the years, which had been blown in on the wind of the G. I. bill and serious-minded veteran students ever since the war. Even under President Dodds' regime there was an insistent thought, at the backs of many minds, of an 'alternate facility' for those men at Princeton who do not want to be in clubs...
...some of the 50 Amish settlements scattered around the U.S. and Canada, the old ways have yielded a little to the march of centuries, but the Amishmen of central Ohio have clung steadfastly to their traditional customs and costumes. They shun automobiles, movies, even home electricity. All married men grow beards, and all men, women and children wear black headdress in public. Farming and a few related trades such as blacksmithing and harness-making are the only approved ways of earning a living. Parents refuse to send their children to public schools beyond the eighth grade-a quirk that...
...aged enfant terrible, an international charmer and flirt. When he descends on the correct San Francisco world in which his daughter lives with her mother and stepfather, and his own glamour puts the girl's serious young ranchman fiancé in the shade, the wedding bells begin to grow faint. For father's ideal of enjoying every real or sham pleasure goes to daughter's head like champagne. Simultaneously, the blood rushes to the ranchman's, and he denounces father's wastrel charms in ringing tones. After that, the play gets a bit shaky...
...three agreed that a party similar to the Dixiecrat attempt in 1948 might grow out of Southern Democrats' resentment on the segregation issue...
...United States, then, does not suffer from an excess of "partisanship" or fundamental criticism. Quite to the contrary. Indeed it is only the capacity to encourage such thoroughgoing judgement and analysis--and to grow from it--that justifies all other risks and claims for support, at home or abroad. Far from being obliged to cultivate the gentle art of "bipartisanship" among her citizens, America needs nothing more desperately than to resurrect the grand tradition of prophetic outrage and Socratic treason...