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Word: growed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through most of last year, with Negro voting strength nearly double what it had been in the previous election, white officials exercised remarkable restraint in dealing with Negroes. Even Gov. Wallace, running his wife as a stand-in gubernatorial candidate, learned to say "knee-grow" for the first time in his political history...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: Despite Perpetual Crisis, Still Publishes | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...burgeoning list of personality-stifling, scarlet-taped "blueprints for living" that add so much pallor to American childhood these days? Can a boy build his Shangri-la with a mind cluttered by requirements for 1-in. floor boards, two-by-four framing and 42-in.-high walls? Can he grow into the resourceful, inventive, self-sufficient man he's expected to be by the Mr. Munsons of the world when he's told to climb no higher than 12 ft. off the ground? So Mr. Munson fell out of a tree house as a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 21, 1967 | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...flutter for a fiver." In short, it seems better to establish some forms of government-controlled gambling and try to stave off the racketeers than to let them proliferate underground. The issue, however, goes beyond combatting crime. Life is filled with all kinds of habits that can grow problematic or dangerous, from liquor and sex to the carrying of firearms and the borrowing of money. In all these fields, subject to some controls, Americans are presumed mature enough to make their own decisions. Is gambling so much more perilous that people must be totally shielded from its seductive power? Within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHY PEOPLE GAMBLE (AND SHOULD THEY?) | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...biggest all-cargo airline, reached into railroading's highest corporate ranks to name Wayne M. Hoffman, 44, the No. 2 man at New York Central, as its new board chairman. In making the switch, Hoffman happily characterized Flying Tiger as a company that is "just beginning to grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: New Tiger at the Top | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...loses not only Antigone, but also his son Haemon and his wife Eurydice. Now he is alone, and has only the living death of a cabinet meeting to look forward to. It is a touching moment when he tells his little page, winningly played by Billy Partello, "Never grow up if you can help...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: III | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

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