Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAREFUL WRITER, by Theodore M. Bernstein. A compendium of grammatical gaffes-everyday and esoteric-that is a reference book and an entertaining brushup on basic English. It will grow wings on any fledgling grammarian gadfly...
...completely sophisticated citizen of the world; yet he was at home only on his Libertyville, Ill., farm, chatting with friends in the library or expertly driving a tractor over his 70 acres. "I know every blade of grass and every tree," he once said. "I like to watch them grow, and I hate to be away from them...
...Beyond this, a gain in the economy can be a mixed blessing. Of the 40% of the world's population that normally goes hungry, about one-fourth are Indians. Even a slight increase in their standard of living means that they would eat better food and grow healthier-and that would send their birth rate...
...Gaza Strip, between India and Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch." Defense experts such as Alastair Buchan, director of Britain's respected Institute of Strategic Studies, take a more sober view of the possibilities of proliferation but foresee, nonetheless, that the number of nuclear powers may well grow from five to 15 in the next 20 years...
...most part it is, because it demonstrates that business has been vigorous enough to generate additional revenue for the Government despite the tax cut-and partly because of it. But the deficit decline disturbs many "activist" economists, who advance the neo-Keynesian argument that if business is to grow vigorously, the Government must pump more money into the economy than it takes...