Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hair on your toes grow ever longer. Thanks for the story on The Lord of the Rings [July 15]. And by the way, college students aren't the only ones who read about hobbits: I'm a sophomore in high school...
...most Americans get all the vitamins and minerals they need from an ordinary, varied diet [July 1] makes me realize he is no nutritionist. He is thinking of the days when the pioneers moved west because their soil was no longer fertile. Today we have made "great strides." We grow our food on depleted soils fertilized with chemicals, sprayed with poisons. We have pasteurized, homogenized, bleached, refined and "enriched": "Enriched" flour is flour from which 25 natural nutrients have been removed during refining; it is "enriched" by replacing one-third the original amount of iron, vitamin B,, and niacin. Today...
...almost as catching as LSD. On many U.S. campuses, buttons declaring FRODO LIVES and GO GO GANDALF-frequently written in Elvish script-are almost as common as football letters. Tolkien fans customarily greet each other with a hobbity kind of greeting ("May the hair on your toes grow ever longer"), toss fragments of hobbit language into their ordinary talk. One favorite word is mathom, meaning something one saves but doesn't need, as in "I've just got to get rid of all these mathoms." Permanently hooked Ringworms frequently memorize long passages from the trilogy and learn...
...Asian lands against conquest by "a hostile power." He has no use for the "Chinese sphere of influence" concession advanced by some dovish intellectuals. On the other hand, "we are not compelled to fight for every inch of Asian soil or hazard war each time Chinese influence begins to grow...
...Viet Nam war and pledged that India, as chairman of the conference's International Control Commission, would aid in policing a Viet Nam ceasefire. She also extolled India's traditional policy of joining neither Eastern nor Western blocs. "Nonalignment," she said, "can harmonize the tensions which grow out of changing alignments. Its practice is consistent with friendship for all." All that would be familiar and reassuring to her father's old buddies, and no doubt very good politics for India's lady...