Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grin on his face, asking for dreams that he himself cannot deliver. "Games are for imagining new things, new ways to be," he pants while stacking boxes into an arch. "My group, we used to build things--castles, huts--anything we could use. They say children who play war grow up peaceful." Peter is the agitator of the lot, an anarchist who feeds to a begging hippie shrimp that customers, as the disgusted workers snarl, "pay good money--$2.85 a pound--for." He echoes a Shavian respect for "the able-minded, able-bodied pauper," who refuses to squelch his imagination...
...Soviet delegates to the Congress ratified the new five-year plan, tenth in the country's history. Running from 1976 through 1980, the plan aims to boost output by 38% to 42% a year in heavy industry, by 14% to 17% in agriculture. Consumer goods are to grow at 30% to 32%; this sector enjoyed priority over heavy industry during the ninth plan, which ended in 1975 (TIME, March 1), but as Kosygin conceded, "Light industry and other industrial branches on which consumer goods depend have not yet lived up to requirements...
...their talk about democracy, the Communist parties themselves are closed and often conspiratorial societies. The Italian party, widely regarded as the paradigm of humanistic Communism, does not permit dissent to grow within the ranks. Decisions are imposed from above, and a political control commission enforces the orthodoxy of the moment. French Party Leader Georges Marchais has stated his belief in a democratic multiparty political system. Exactly what he has in mind, however, may not be reassuring; in 1974, for example, a French party congress praised the "democratic achievements" of the near-totalitarian regimes of Eastern Europe. No wonder Harvard Sovietologist...
...Paul and Columbus. It is part of an experiment by the U.S. Postal Service to boost revenues by getting more people to use the mails. The unusual TV promotion is the latest effort by the embattled Postal Service to lift itself out of financial trouble that seems to grow more severe with each passing month...
...university (Columbia, 1910) and, as a member of Orville Wright's design team, was taught to fly by Orville himself. In 1917 he formed his own plane-manufacturing company, eventually selling some 300 amphibian biplanes and becoming a millionaire in the process. In his 1935 book, Our Wings Grow Faster, Loening predicted that "at 500 m.p.h. 50,000 ft. above the ocean . . . far above storms or ice or fog . . . we will cross from New York to London in six hours." He lived to see that prophecy improved on with the SST. But in his later years he urged less...