Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Corliss taught school in Boston after his graduation from Harvard 51 years ago. "When I retired I didn't want to sit and watch the grass grow, and I didn't want a headache job," he explained. He came to Lamont eight years ago, and now works a tolerable 25 hours each week...
...potentially no more idiotic than those which have fueled many successful Hollywood thrillers. A nasty Nazi doctor clones 94 infants from a graft of Hitler's skin, and plants his babies all over the world, trusting that in the correct environment at least a quarter of them will grow up to be fuhrers. It might have worked as satire of Hollywood, because these Nazis think like producers and studio-heads: Why bother to devise something new when cloning the old formula makes for a smashing success...
...just 1% more of its G.N.P. into savings, it would have $20 billion more in seed capital. Says Feldstein: "It really comes down to this: If we save more, we grow faster. Surely we should take this good opportunity to forgo a bit today in order to gain a lot more tomorrow." To which it might be added that the "lot more tomorrow" would be the best social security for everybody...
...took about two weeks for the movement to boycott Nestle's Corporation to grow from a dining hall petition to the topic of primary debate in the Student Assembly and the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL). For a while, it even looked as though the University Food Services would actually accede to the demands and stop buying Nestle's products...
...three men said they decided to grow beards this year as a result of comments by Charles J. Krause Jr., sanitary inspector for the University Health Services (UHS), at a seminar for kitchen workers last spring. Krause told workers that facial hair was sanitary, and thus acceptable in kitchens if "beard restraints," or surgical masks were worn...