Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just isolated patches, but long rolling, reeking swathes of rich, brown mud. Now there is nothing innately evil about mud, save for the sake of the few dogs and freshmen who disappear with a slow, sinking motion. But after a while the mud dries and green grass begins to grow. Now grass isn't innately evil either, except for its color. The green of the grass in the Yard clashes with the green cement in front of Sever Hall. Green cement is far more goodthan green grass as it lasts all year round and starves ugly worms...
...author also praises Supreme Court Justice Felix M. Frankfurter as a man whose stature will, "despite his detractors, grow with time and with the increasing political maturity of the American people...
...throws them too high, squeezes them too tight." For all his "settling down." Bernstein has not noticeably slowed his pace. He seems to feel that he is still living the overture. "We still sit up nights." says an old friend, "and talk about what we'll do when we grow...
...Bernstein knows that "in the next year or two. when I grow up, I'll have to decide what to do. It used to come so easy. Now I get tired." The wonder boy has become the man who wonders...
Real wages kept a step ahead as Americans piled up heavy overtime pay; the average factory production worker with a wife and two children took home an all-time peak of $76.54 a week, $1.30 more than the month before. Paychecks will grow even fatter. In February alone, hourly wages of some 500,000 U.S. workers in the transport and electrical industries will move up 1¢ to 3¢ under cost-of-living escalators. Warned BLS: "Rising costs and strong aggregate demand will very likely underwrite a continued climb in consumer and wholesale prices...