Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Helping backward nations grow food [Nov. 22] is not necessarily the wisest course for them...
...exhibitors hold out, we feel satisfied with the 80% to 85% that we estimate will voluntarily support us." With that majority demanding proof of age at the box office, youth will now be restricted to four choices: G: go to a Walter Reade Theater; M: mark time until you grow up; R: riot in front of the box office; or X: wait until the movie makes the Late Show...
Richard Nixon will also have at least one crony with whom he can feel completely comfortable when the pressures of office grow too great. Charles Gregory ("Bebe") Rebozo, however, is not exactly a court jester. He is a Florida real estate millionaire who evidently made his fortune by bringing to bear the very sort of methodical perseverance that won the presidency for Nixon. Commenting on a certain steady, plodding quality in Rebozo, one unfriendly observer says: "He is just like Nixon. That's why they're such great friends...
...sometimes the subsequent exodus from the language) of more than 100 collective nouns (a gaggle of geese, a pride of lions, a skulk of foxes, a labor of moles), most of which began in the 1400s in England as precise terms of venery. Happily, the collection has continued to grow during the intervening centuries: a shrivel of critics, an unction of undertakers (which, in larger groups, becomes an extreme unction of undertakers), and a swish of hairdressers. Etymology has seldom been pursued with more charm, literacy...
...assigned to shunt us from room to room had just the faintest suggestion of eyes beneath foot-thick glasses with huge black plastic frames. The curl of his lips when he yanked Dave Gordon half-dressed from the dressing room for the "dress rehearsal" was enough to grow boils on your heart. "Every minute is costing us money," he said on the way through the labyrinthine corridors to the studio. "And if the company loses money, I lose money," He was about...