Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fearful thing about closed schools in Little Rock is that the children may grow up to be as dumb as the Governor...
Retiring from the Army in 1949, Jerry Persons became superintendent of Virginia's Staunton Military Academy, enjoyed watching his cadets grow up "like a damned fine garden." But in 1951 Ike called again; Persons went to France as liaison man at Supreme Allied headquarters, became the go-between for General Eisenhower and the scores of political emissaries urging Ike to run for President. Named White House congressional representative by President Eisenhower in 1953, Persons worked skillfully at a job that concerned him with everything, from the "control of the tsetse fly to foreign aid." Occasionally criticized for his soft...
...reporters accustomed to sprints and serves, pitches and passes, it was rarely more exciting than watching grass grow. Between yawns, the New York Herald Tribune's, Columnist Red Smith got off a series of wryscracks that hearkened back to Ring Lardner and 1920: "Next to being smitten on the brow with a bung starter, there is no more effective soporific than watching a pair of sailboats race for the America's Cup. It is a spectacle calculated to make the tea break in a cricket test seem wildly exciting...
Southerners Grow Resigned...
...love the South now, understand that," one student from Georgia began, "but they're kidding themselves down there. The South has got to grow...