Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must plant potatoes in square clusters. You must grow cabbage as my grandmother did," he lectured cloth-capped peasants. He admitted that his plans for planting corn ("sausage on the stalk") had not panned out so well everywhere. "If you cannot catch the bird of paradise," he advised, "better take a wet hen." Bidding for the farm vote, he promised the collectivists lower taxes and an end to compulsory delivery to the state from their private plots, then crowed: "Within the next few years, we shall catch up with the U.S. in per-capita production of meat, milk and butter...
...print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...
...school with a pack of pencils and instructions to sharpen his potential. The new corporate fad-or what one executive calls "a fever sweeping industry"-was started to combat the shortage of executives by trying to force-feed talent in the classroom instead of waiting for it to grow naturally in the office. In 1957 alone, industry sent an estimated 300,000 executives back to school in hopes that they would learn to be better bosses. The phenomenal increase in corporate collegians has sparked a high-level, academic argument: Just how much good are such training courses...
...they're going to be vice president," says one executive. "When it doesn't happen to them, they're disappointed." Others sulk if management does not readily accept their new ideas. Moreover, some companies suspect that the popularity of executive training, especially at universities, does not grow from corporate need at all, but is merely a long-delayed reaction to the idea that the average businessman is just an uncultured boob...
...benefit through increased productivity. In 1957 productivity rose barely 1%, lagging behind wages. In 1958 it should rise sharply, not only because the new plants built by industry are more efficient but because increased competition for jobs should make everyone work a little better. Moreover, as jobs grow scarcer, wages will flatten out. While the Autoworkers' Walter Reuther still talks of demanding a four-day workweek and other plums, wage demands will be tougher to win from management, whose bargaining position has been strengthened by the economic downturn and the scandals in labor's own house that have...