Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer home, where one of her donnish young Establishment pals sneeringly trounces him in a tennis match. Tinker ultimately sees himself as the girl sees him-inconsequential and rather desperate, not a galloping individualist who puts down society because it stinks, but a wobbly nonentity who is afraid to grow up and compete for all the dandy, vulgar goodies the world affords...
They were all dressed up to see the dirty movies. Their leather clothes, like their paunches, were old but dignified. They had apparently seen the Wild One, and liked it. Even if Brando's hair was thinning they were loyally going to grow old with him. The leather pulls on their zippers were frayed, or, as in the case of the oldest, a nervous gentleman who had to be helped to his seat, they were entirely chewed away...
...Hope for five years and a successful stand-up comedian himself, Price claims he has "bummed around" for the last few years. At 44, he plans to "go straight" now and devote most of his time to Grump. "Today's humor is like frozen food," he says. "Children grow up not only ignorant of what real, good food is but also of what real humor is." Price hopes to enrich their diet...
Ironically, the surge in imports results from the exuberance of the U.S. economy. When the total national output of goods and services grows by 5% a year, Government analysts figure that imports increase at the same pace. When gross national product swells at a rate of 8% to 9% a year, as it did in the last three months of 1965, then such is the increase in buying power that imports grow twice as fast. In the fourth quarter, they shot up 17½% and Commerce experts predict that performance will continue through 1966. As a result, the U.S. trade...
...used for a gaol. In 1788, the year of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, civilization in the form of white slavery arrived at Cook's Botany Bay. So came about a bush Belsen, with men in iron shackles under the bemused eyes of the natives trying to grow food in a land innocent of agriculture...