Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free tens of thousands of executives and engineers for active managerial jobs. But they all have a reluctance to leave the bright lights of Moscow. And the regional councils, as the London Times noted, "are to be given so much planning and liaison work to do that bureaucrats will grow like bluebells...
...mile trip ("Perhaps I shouldn't tell you, but I believe the schools were rioting"), he whisked his young audience through 20 different lands, dropping offbeat bits of information on the way. The Seychelles, he explained, are "supposed to be the original Garden of Eden. They grow a double-ended coconut there that is supposed to be the original Forbidden Fruit. I'm not surprised. I tasted some. I think Adam was very ill-advised to taste...
...Peace. The quiet folk won out. Finally, oats, corn and beans were made to grow, and the government ended the Villistas' raids. Today, the colony supports 15,000 Mennonites who live in 54 campos, small communities of 40 or 50 families. In some ways the Chihuahua settlers are less determinedly orthodox than the Amish of Pennsylvania. The men wear ordinary straw hats, overalls and work shoes, and the women wear colored homespun (only the older women cling to the black dress). Buttons and zippers are not considered works of the Devil, nails are used in construction, and there...
...cash for F-M stock purchases. The company's true net income (not counting nonrecurring items) was $2,228,000 in 1956, a drop of $689,544 from 1955's comparable figure. On Penn-Texas stockholders, who gather for their annual meeting in May, the suspicion may grow that Financier Silberstein's "victory" is too breathtaking to bear...
Noting that present universities will have to grow to the limit of their ability, Bender said that he anticipated a day "when every population center of 20,000 or more will have its own community institution beyond the twelfth grade...