Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most parts of the Middle Atlantic region have had to grow accustomed to the hard realities of economic stagnation, which set in before the national recession and is likely to survive it. In Philadelphia, Buffalo, Newark and even the affluent suburbs, talk soon turns to unemployment. There are jobs to be had, as any newspaper's want ads demonstrate, but only about half as many as were offered ten years ago. One reason that many of the jobs are going begging is that some unemployed people can afford to be choosy about work. For instance, in New York, dishwashing...
...present, to the experiences of black people in other parts of the world, especially in Africa". Andrea Rushing, an instructor in the department, commented in 1972: "There is no serious way to discuss the experience of Afro-American without discussing Africa. Afro-Americans did not--like Topsy--just grow on the shores of the New World. The question of emphasis can be argued, but with the dearth of other courses on Africa at Harvard, the department has no choice but to make sure that its students have the foundation laid and the links pointed out within the Afro-American Studies...
...need everyone to be a future corporation leader," he says. As long as Harvard can get enough financial support to survive and grow, "we can enjoy the luxury" of seeing alumni in the non-corporate world, "who can go and write an esoteric book that will add a great deal to human knowledge but will never sell more than 20 copies...
...probably could earn more money in the U.S., but money isn't the main consideration. Sweden's a good place for my two children to grow...
...America has been blessed by a myriad variety of landscapes. But whether we are on the mountaintop, in the desert, on shipboard, in our automobile or an airplane, we are protected from the climate, the soil, the sand, the snow, the water. Our roots, such as they are, grow in an antiseptic hydroponic solution. Instead of enjoying the weather given us "by Nature and by Nature's God" (in Jefferson's phrase), we worry about the humidifier and the air conditioner...