Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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United Fruit has renamed itself United Brands, symbolizing the neutralization of its image and its power. It is getting older, weaker, and somehow more real. The banana plantations are still there, as ghostly as ever now that the banana bunches grow inside plastic bags on the trees, but they no longer exude their malevolent smell of intimidation. The local managers are smoothies instead of rednecks, and the worders are a well-off aristocracy of labor rather than serfs. The company has even gotten out of landowning, and prefers marketing and shipping...
...authors do not assume that anyone who wants to build their own house also wants to grow hair all over their bodies and hunt their own food. Wing and Cole consider subjects like connecting the house with utilities, and getting a mortgage (often difficult for off-beat, self-made houses). For the inexperienced home-builder, Cole admits that "arrogance and ignorance can be great allies...
...these blueprints, two themes of his mature art appeared. The first was collaboration: he worked with his wife on them, as he would work with others in theater, dance and printing. "Ideas aren't real estate; they grow collectively, and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects...
...deny them some sort of training. But why should they go into regular classrooms? According to proponents of integration, 1) handicapped children can achieve more academically and socially if they are not isolated, 2) a regular school setting can help them better cope with the "real" world when they grow up, and 3) exposure to handicapped children helps normal children understand individual differences in people...
Dorothy E. McComb, assistant in Microbiology, said yesterday her new technique involves checking for substances the body produces to combat venereal disease germs. The present method of testing for venereal disease is to take a sample from the infected area and grow a culture of the germs...