Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midst of a $130 million expansion program, Oklahoma expects to grow from 15,500 to 25,000 students by 1975. Thanks to Cross's concern for good student-administration relations, O.U. has been relatively free of campus disorder, except before the annual football game with archrival Texas...
Roots & Branches. Until that unlikely day, demands for sweeping changes in the nation's auto insurance system are likely to grow. One proposal, understandably opposed by trial lawyers, is to do away with the "fault principle" in most auto accidents-which means that the insurer would pay off its own policyholder, regardless of who was to blame. Advocates of this plan contend that it would cut costs by ending interminable haggling over claims. At the same time, it would reduce the backlog of cases which is clogging the nation's court calendars...
...riots begin. The police execute looters-and then turn on the hopelessly ill, shooting them down like horses as they writhe outside the hospital that can no longer help them. At last, apathy envelops the populace like a thick London fog. Asked what they want to be when they grow up, little boys listlessly reply, "I don't want to be nothin...
...regulations, and in most cases they answer to no higher authority. Until its current session, the U.S. Supreme Court had never even reviewed a state juvenile court case. But last week, by an 8-to-1 majority, the court ruled that it is time for juvenile courts to grow up. "Neither the 14th Amendment nor the Bill of Rights is for adults alone," said Justice Abe Fortas for the majority. "Under our Constitution, the condition of being a boy does not justify a kangaroo court...
...expose the gangland's deepest secrets, his wife's extramarital capers, his partners' tampered tax returns. By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money. In a shabby shack, the kids rejoice around the suitcase full of loot; but while they grow frenetic, Quinn turns splenetic. Money, he decides in a jolting flash of insight, isn't everything, and in the end he sets the cash on fire. The kids-like the viewer -wind up with nothing...