Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gasoline squeeze have been voiced repeatedly since last winter by everyone from oil executives to Jimmy Carter and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, all of whom have urged the public to curb its driving and start conserving fuel. No one has paid much attention, and people seem instead to grow more convinced by the day that the shortages are part of a price-gouging hoax perpetrated...
Supplies are also being crimped because demand for petroleum continues to grow. Last year's momentary surplus brought on by increased output from the North Sea and Alaska has been more than wiped out by rising consumption as well as OPEC's cutbacks. Steadily growing consumption of gasoline is causing most of the demand problem. Nearly 40% of all oil used in the U.S. goes for gasoline, and even though the price has almost doubled since 1973, the nation's 142 million motorists are burning it in record amounts. Not only have over 20 million new drivers...
...made, the brightest of all being the casting of Robert Duvall and Lee Remick as the leads. Duvall may not look much like Ike-the top of head notwithstanding-but he cuts a forceful figure. His Eisenhower is unfailingly decent, corny, shrewd: a first-rate general who would later grow into a caretaker President. Remick does not resemble Summersby too much either, but who cares...
...demand subsided from 5% as recently as 1977 to 2% last year. But nearly all the improvement has come from conservation by industry, while individuals blithely go along wasting fuel. Not only has demand for gasoline, which accounts for one-third of the nation's fuel bill, continued to grow fast, but U.S. dependence on foreign oil has increased by nearly 50% since the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, and this year will reach some $50 billion...
...long after the profits do. Besides, nuclear power is a world problem, and the peoples of the world must all say no to nukes in unison. The time has come now to break our nuclear addiction, and to take control of our future. We have no time left to grow...