Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they attempt to turn the pain itself into pleasure, i.e., they become psychic masochists. At the same time, humans learn in the nursery to fear the woman: it is she who takes the nipple out of the infant's mouth, she who disciplines him. Many persons grow up to run away from the fearful mother image, and at the same time unconsciously to court self-damage. The resort for both distorted tendencies is homosexuality...
...show at once both the best and worst of the Philadelphia university. On the one hand there is the recognition of the value of learning as shown in the laudable efforts of president Gaylord P. Harnwell to raise the school's standards. On the other, many students refuse to grow up; this immaturity, born in the undergraduate body and often unwittingly cultivated by the faculty and administration, makes the University of Pennsylvania seem at times like high school revisited...
...administration reaches even into the traditional hangout of freedom, the fraternity. Dean Peters last year introduced the novel idea of having a resident adviser in the various frat houses. "Ten fraternities have done this voluntarily; with the great improvement this practice has brought about, we hope it will grow and expand," Peters says. Still, for all its committees and representatives, the Dean's office likes to posture itself as a benevolent despot. Peters explains, "There is a certain number of necessary rules. We try to interfere as little as possible with student affairs...
Amid the gently rolling countryside of Beltsville, Md., there is a strange garden that would drive any weekend horticulturist to distraction. Among the odd sights: pine trees that grow only 8 in. tall, chrysanthemums that flower in spring instead of fall, poinsettias that bloom in June's heat instead of Christmastime cold. But these plant anomalies are manmade. For U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists have discovered the mysterious chemical in plants that regulates plant growth, have found that they can stunt trees at their pleasure, make flowers bloom when they choose...
Agriculture experts hope that a rapid price drop will discourage production. The U.S. corn farmer, already unhappy about this year's low prices, has an answer to that: rising productivity that enables him to grow ever bigger crops for ever bigger total subsidies, no matter what the price...