Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grow up and accept our lovely drawl. Hopefully you'll be hearing lots more of it soon...
...Ford, conscientious but not herculean, competent but not brilliant, solid, self-confident, good-natured and decent but not at all spellbinding, the same old Jerry Ford-that is the image that he will project to the delegates in Kansas City this week. His critics complain he has failed to grow dramatically in stature or skill in the job that he holds and wants to keep. His friends compliment him for avoiding the pomposity, the paranoia and the isolation that have been occupational hazards for some of his predecessors. Both the critics and the friends are right. Ford is remarkably unchanged...
...Grand Old Party, these should be the good new days. Republicans control the White House, as they have for 16 of the past 24 years. Under their grow-slow policies, the economy has been rebounding for 16 months, and inflation has been brought down to the second-lowest rate (after Switzerland) in the Western world. Not only has prosperity been restored, but the nation is at peace, and the cities and campuses are cool. The pollsters report that public confidence is on the rise and that Americans are becoming more conservative?suspicious of Big Government and the big-spending programs...
Still, compared with the raucous Republicans, Carter was making good progress preparing for the campaign. His national campaign staff-now consisting of 325 paid workers but scheduled to grow to 700 or 800 by the fall-has moved into new headquarters: three upper floors of the 24-story Colony Square building on Atlanta's Peachtree Street...
...year in the U.S. alone. That they develop early in fetal life is clear, but beyond that no one knows the exact cause. It may be a genetic defect, the result of maternal malnutrition or infection, drugs, or a combination of these. Whatever the cause, as fetal tissues grow and form the lips, mouth and palate, something inhibits normal development. The result is a twisted, often grotesque distortion of the nose and a gaping cleft in the upper lip, and sometimes the palate...