Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman behind the name began to grow old. Polly Thomson died. The travels ceased, the books stopped coming, and instead of the aging legend in the newspapers and newsreels, Helen Keller was seen as a young girl again in William Gibson's The Miracle Worker, which told of her early days with Teacher when she was rescued from what she called the "no-world." The play and the motion picture brought alive for yet another generation the example of Helen Keller's conquest of adversity. Last week, shortly before her 88th birthday, Helen Keller died in her home...
...change," Edmund Burke warned, "is without the means of its own conservation." It is a lesson that Charles de Gaulle largely ignored. Public men today cannot learn it too well; for if one thing is certain, it is that the demands for new solutions and systems are going to grow in number, voracity and volume, and no society on earth will be spared the threat of the angry alternative...
Late at night, in his chartered Boeing 727, Bobby, 42, looks neither young nor beautiful. Deep lines mark the brow. Stumping in the sun has turned his nose pink; lack of sleep has dulled and reddened his eyes. The grey wires in his tawny hair grow more visible. How goes the race for the nomination? From behind his cigar: "It's silly to talk about that. It's like trying to gauge the outcome after the first five seconds of a minute-long contest...
...front end, the race belonged beyond question to Forward Pass. Lucky post position, an excellent ride, and a perfect pace situation all contributed to the official Derby winner's six-length lead, which seemed to grow with every stride...
...part of our heritage," says Los Angeles' Don Burt, who was voted best horse judge in the U.S. last year. "As we get more citified, there's more demand for release, for open spaces. Now that people can afford horses, it's bound to grow." Increasingly, families are discovering that a brisk morning canter is not only fine exercise; it also opens up new country-even in relatively built-up areas...