Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thus, the one area in which a common language has best chance to grow is that of ground rules for the great competition which dominates our time-some rules of the game-to keep it within bounds set by the conditions of co-survival...
...ahead of Jack Kennedy. In Kennedy's own East, the gap was narrower, but Nixon led Kennedy, 52 to 48. Only in the South was Kennedy out front, but in that traditionally Democratic heartland, his margin was close enough to make a Democratic handicapper's hands grow clammy: Nixon, 48%; Kennedy...
...China." Unimpressed, Nehru coldly pointed out that "the cause of the recent troubles is action taken from your side of the border," and concluded grimly that "we have to face the realities of a situation, and the present situation is that relations between our two countries are likely to grow worse...
...driving copper wires through magnetic fields. That is all that happens in the huge, spinning generators of a power station. The rest of the massive apparatus-furnaces, boilers, turbines, condensers, etc. -is only to make the generators spin. Last week Avco Corp. described an infant invention that may grow into a wholly different and more efficient way to generate electricity...
...Zulu: "Ubugekengu abukhokheli lutho [Crime does not pay]."* There is a movement in the crowd, especially among the young toughs in ducktail haircuts, dungarees and safari jackets. "Nike-lani izikhali zenu nani ku Nkulunkulu [Surrender your arms and yourself to God]," he continues, and a pile begins to grow at his feet-knives, blackjacks, brass knuckles (natives are forbidden to own firearms), and quantities of stolen goods. At one meeting police carted away three vanloads, and it is not unusual for Evangelist Bhengu to end up by walking down to the police station hand in hand with someone...