Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideas and the "great" problems of all time, and, in theory at least, this seemed like a good thing to Vag. But others seemed to think it involved throwing oneself into any subject that proved stimulating. Some of these even claimed that students should be allowed to grow gloriously lopsided along whatever lines they pleased. This too had its good points, but Vag could not see why it was any worse to spend four years studying accounting than it was to spend the same amount of time studying Spoken Mandarin, or the history of Australia, New Zealand, and the adjacent...
...vacation villa in Switzerland, Princess Grace of Monaco observed that "marriage is improving me. I am growing up. We hope to have a son" so that Princess Caroline, seven months, "won't have the problem of being heiress to the throne," but can "grow up to be anything she likes-even an actress.'' Vowed Grace: "Sooner or later those rumors about my pregnancy are going to be true...
...winks out all at once with no preliminaries. Even the delicate instruments of professional astronomers cannot detect the slightest trace of dimming or wavering. But if an astronomer on the moon were to watch the earth eclipsing a star, he would see a different performance. The star would grow dim and reddish like the setting sun, and its light would be bent by refraction in the earth's atmosphere, making the star appear to shift its position...
Will our American politicians never grow enough to consider the needs of the country rather than their personal gain? President Eisenhower is being slaughtered for his ideals, which are not politically motivated...
...center court for the payoff match with California's Louise Brough. A canny and experienced campaigner who had won the title herself just ten years ago, Louise tried every trick she knew to stave off the inevitable. She pounded Althea's weak backhand, only to watch it grow stronger. She tried to step up the speed of her own serves, only to make deadly double faults. Taking her time, getting more depth on her shots as her opposition faded, Althea had things all her own way. She hardly drew a hurried breath...