Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superficial answer is: Of course. In the basic necessities, America is more self-sufficient than any European country. Advocates of independence point out that 95 percent of the more than 2.5 million Colonists are farmers, and that besides the produce they themselves grow, they can depend on an abundance of wild game and fish. The average American, unlike his counterpart in England, builds his own house?right down to finishing the nails?and he has to go no farther than his wife to obtain his clothes...
...supplying soldiers' uniforms, and Chatham sail-and ropemakers are working overtime to help equip ships for the Atlantic convoys. Other manufacturers throughout the kingdom are equally busy providing linen, shirts and blankets-not to mention muskets and cannon. To feed the Germans, farmers are being asked to grow more cabbages...
...200th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. is a welcome opportunity for me to send my warmest greetings to the American people and to wish them ever increasing happiness and success. It is also my ardent wish that America's greatness will continue to abide and grow, procuring for the people of the U.S. unparalleled welfare and prosperity...
Like its predecessor, That's Entertainment, Part 2 is heavy with show biz nostalgia that could be dispensed, like programs or refreshment, out in the lobby. The movie takes it for granted that everyone in the audience will grow misty-eyed over these snatches of glory past. What is more saddening, however, is that the musical form has stayed stubbornly stuck; its evolution ended, apparently, in mid-1950s Hollywood...
Barrett, who hopes to become an Episcopal priest, believes that St. Paul's condemnation of "dishonorable passions," referred to homosexual acts rather than to a whole way of life. She says, "Paul wouldn't understand that a person could grow up gay." Neither, it seems, can most U.S. Protestants, who seem unlikely to accept homosexual leadership in their churches soon...