Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enders was a co-winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering that polio virus would grow in human tissue cultures...
...Scandals of Clochemerle, a French village in the Beaujolais country, where every bit of thick underbrush had a tale to tell. Clochemerle is The Wicked Village, but no one is expected to take the title seriously. To be sure, everyone drinks too much wine, but after all, they grow the stuff and depend on it for a livelihood. In the spring the boys and girls are apt to experiment a little too ardently or carelessly, so that a rather high proportion of firstborns are illegitimate. But marriage. more often than not sets things to rights...
...making her sell her house. Her real estate agent, she sputtered, had warned her to sell "because the mayor was going to move a Negro next door." It was then that Frank Zeidler first became aware of a whispering campaign that in the ensuing four years would grow until it is now the main obstacle to Zeidler's bid for a third term...
...Only at carefully specified hours,' said Lucy. She touched his head with her fingertips, on the back of his neck. 'Delicious,' she said. 'You must never let your hair grow long...
Lucy Crown keeps one in suspense at the end of every chapter. Will suburban housewife Lucy's summer indiscretion with a younger man turn her marriage to Oliver Crown into a lasting winter of discontent? Can the couple's 13-year-old son Tony grow into a healthy, normal American boy after he peeps through the cottage blinds and sees his mother in the arms and bed of his 20-year-old counselor-companion Jeff? Is humorless, self-contained Oliver to blame for it all be cause he treats his Hartford, Conn, printing plant as a religion...