Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scandal" fussing about? Bribery has been a common (and timehonored) practice as far back as Marco Polo and even before that. I find it surprising that Americans still cling to illusions of innocence after the years of Viet Nam, Watergate and intelligence investigations. Won't this country ever grow up and realize there is rottenness in the world...
...street-smart, tries to change Kitty's mind; she tells her she's got to keep on, then looks up into the lights in a mood of inspiration invoking the dream of the silver screen: "Everywhere," she says, "there are girls... and a few strange boys... who want to grow up to be starlets." If there is an essence to the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' meandering 128th show, I guess this is it. The immediate humor panders to a stereotype; it relies on the underlying irony to carry it through. And the underlying irony--the fact that Henna, Kitty...
...shrine. "Your Secretary of State is a Yankee torbellino [whirlwind]," marveled one Caracas motorcycle cop. Near the end of the visit, a local journalist asked President Pérez if Kissinger had broken the ice between the two countries. Pérez's reply: "Ice doesn't grow in tropical countries...
...especially pitiable to watch the eyes of the ladies grow round with greed as pheasants and lobsters, sorbets and desserts, are presented to them. Even those who do not betray their appetite by staring, who continue to talk with animation of other subjects, give themselves away when, without warning, a polite and cultivated syllable will suddenly drown in an excess of saliva. Yet it is a reckless woman who dares take more than a small slice of some favorite dish, for should she eat as much as she likes, she will simply faint dead away, as the corsets they wear...
...tell them to grow...