Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President answered the rote objection that the Saigon government is unstable, undemocratic and unpopular. "For many centuries," explained Old Teacher Humphrey, "the Vietnamese people lived under mandarin rule. Then came generations of colonial domination followed by 25 years of almost constant warfare. This is stony soil for democracy to grow in." He noted by contrast that there had been little protest from liberals over U.S. support for Greece during its struggle against Communist insurgency in the late 1940s. Yet, he pointed out, Athens' governmental gyrations in that time exceeded even Saigon's changes of regime...
...eleven-year-old girl named Grace Bedell had written, saucily suggesting that "if you will let your whiskers grow, you would look a great deal better, for your face is so thin." Bemused by the note, Republican Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln wrote back to Grace in October 1860: "As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affection [sic] if I were to begin now?" Affection or not, Lincoln grew the beard and won the election. His note to Grace survived through three generations in her family, until...
...business development. "It is better to ask what I cannot do," beams Merszei. "I can do anything to improve Dow profits." Dow has two other divisions for Latin America and the Far East, which will be given the same broad authority that Dow Chemical Europe has whenever their sales grow big enough...
Moreover, for esthetic reasons, Mem Hall will grow obsolete. Now it is an isolated building on an isolated plot, but as development proceeds, something will be needed to unite the buildings, not separate them as Mem Hall would do. In short, it will become expendable because its utility--both practical and esthetic--will not approach the value of its real estate...
...seem to be strong. Consider some of the things floating around now: the Charles Warren Center for American History is not likely to stay indefinitely in the small wooden house at 53 Church St.; the Population Center, now located in a completely renovated house on Bow St., certainly will grow, and, with it, probably the need for a new home; the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies may someday wish to expand to larger quarters or move closer to the center of academic activity. And then, the University may just decide to leave a large part...