Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infinite patience. "A road ends at a river where the ferryboat has been sunk by bombing," says Captain John Irwin, a Recce Tech officer. "Where is the new ferryboat? We study the riverbank and find a bush that wasn't there a week ago. Bushes don't grow that fast...
...five of whom are over 40 (Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, Donald Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom), has proved that a man can double his normal physical competence at ages much beyond 21. Any middle-ager's physiological potential is probably as unique as his fingerprints. The hair may grow thinner, but the capacity for mental growth is unimpaired in middle age. It is obvious that a man or woman of 40 can understand Moby Dick, The Waste Land or Ulysses (which was published on James Joyce's 40th birthday) far better than the 18-year...
...paper's profits, to be sure, are marginal. But the new editor hopes they will grow along with circulation: "It could be 10,000-there are 10,000 families in the county." To supplement his income, he works the farm by himself, has already made $700 on such crops as corn and tobacco, and expects the figure to climb soon to $2,500 a year...
Stories about his exploits are legend, and they grow in the telling. Romy on the telephone seems a constant source of confusion. Somehow, a homicide detective on duty at the dead nurses' apartment got the impression that he was talking to Cook County Coroner Andrew Toman, and he started spilling all the gory details of the crime-until he saw Toman walk into the room. Whereupon he slammed down the receiver in embarrassment. Somehow, Suspect Richard Speck's mother in Dallas got the idea that she was talking to a lawyer hired to defend her son. She gushed...
Opportunity Broadens. Wall Street is leary of the movie industry because it so often soars and dips on hit movies or bombs. In spite of success, United's price-earnings ratio has stayed low, and its opportunity to grow has been hampered. Now, with financial backing from stronger Consolidated, it will be able to explore such fields as television, books, magazines and music publishing. Under the Cummings system of decentralized management, moreover, United's old team will continue to run the motion-picture business. All Cummings will have to do, he hopes, is count the earnings and perhaps...