Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First I thought of being the proverbial engine driver or something. Then I wanted to grow up to be a sailor, as I had been on the yacht for the first time, and, of course, a soldier, because I had been watching the Changing of the Guard. When I started shooting, I thought how marvelous it would be to be a big-game hunter. I went from one thing to the other until I realized I was rather stuck...
Prince Charles? His style, understandably, is less simply defined. He had had to grow up with the awesome knowledge that eventually he must don the crown. Almost from the moment of his birth, on Nov. 14, 1948, Charles has been trained for the succession. From the outset, Elizabeth and Philip were determined to give the heir as wide and worldly an education as possible within the limits of royal propriety. Beginning at eight, he was sent to school beyond the Buckingham Palace walls. His first stop was chic Hill House in Knightsbridge, where he had trouble with arithmetic. A year...
...familiar areas. In his traditional appeal to young people, he tried to be even more sympathetic than usual. He confessed amiably to one audience that his wife Ruth-who teaches Sunday school to hippie-esque students near their Montreat, N.C., home-had tried unsuccessfully to get him to grow a beard. As an innovation, the crusade sponsored an auditorium-sized psychedelic "coffeehouse" in a building a block from the Garden. There, longhaired groups blared "spiritual" rock, minishifted girls sang on a platform, and listeners sipped soft drinks and talked with some of Graham's 1,000 counsellors about religion...
...control 115 companies spread from Canada to South America. Estimates of his wealth ranged up to $600 million, but Murchison never bothered to total the figures. "Money is like manure," he once said. "When it stacks up it stinks, but when you spread it around it makes things grow...
...Federal Reserve compounded the difficulties by unwisely permitting the money supply to grow much too fast, partly because it had to supply funds to finance the Government debt. Last summer the board's governors rroneously concluded that the surcharge might jolt the economy into recession. The board then expanded the money supply at an annual rate of 11%, which meant that there was more money around than the increased output of goods warranted. Naturally, prices went up faster than be fore. So far this year, the board has not increased the money supply at all, but its mistake...