Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberace-a suit of gold lamé and the skin of an unborn calf, plus golden shoes (24-carat coating, claimed his handlers) to match. In an earlier session with dazzled newshounds, Elvis disclosed one of his great personal sorrows: "Ah always wanted sideburns, but Ah cain't grow a mustache...
United Family. Tapeworms have no personality, and folk tales about long-established worms that grow to be intimate friends of their human hosts are not based on fact. But tapeworms do have a talent of sorts: their strange and ingenious way of perpetuating their species. Some tapeworms are almost microscopic; others may be more than 100 ft. long. They are all following the same basic way of life. The adult consists of a "head" (scolex) that clings with hooks and suckers to the host's intestine. Below the head is a short neck that grows continually and differentiates into...
From Patting Dogs. When humans eat infected meat that is not thoroughly cooked, the cysts are digested, releasing a tapeworm head that attaches itself to the wall of the intestine. The "beef tapeworm of man" (Taenia saginata) may grow to be 40 ft. long and half an inch wide. This is the species whose heads are occasionally sold as active ingredients of "reducing pills." They may be slightly effective by causing general debility (it is not true that tapeworms increase appetite), but a society of tapeworms coiled in the abdomen cannot improve the figure...
...crude her life as oil and machine tools heiress, society matriarch, diplomatic envoy and social worker. Young Evelyn Rudie and veteran Shirley Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle's hoked-up TV life: her eighth birthday party to which no one came ("I'll show them. When I grow up I'll give a party where the mostes' people in the whole world come!"); the social errors in Pittsburgh ("Escargots? I thought they were snails"); the Washington party at which the offstage "voice" of Harry Truman sounded like Tennessee Ernie Ford. At show's end Perle...
...case for public education. When education must bow to the whims of an ideologically confused and sub-college citizenry, it can never equal the standards of private education. There will always be the wishes, tastes, and fears of Opinion to consider, the Public that wants education to grow, but only within the mold of its own image...