Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cuba's population is young, but its revolution, like its leader, is facing middle age. Castro and his comrades are afraid that the youth, untested in struggle and cosseted by the socialist state, will grow up soft and complacent. Officials in Havana say frankly that one reason for sending young Cubans on what they call "internationalist missions" to Angola, Ethiopia and other embattled Third World countries is to give them a taste of the way their elders fought against the government troops of Dictator Fulgencio Batista in the 1950s and against U.S.-backed invaders at the Bay of Pigs...
...long after Caroline was born, Grace expressed the hope that her second child would be a son, so that her daughter would be spared the public life demanded of an heiress to a throne and "grow up to be anything she likes-even an actress." That wish came true when Albert was born a few months later, but Caroline grew up to be rather too independent-at least for her father's taste. At the Catholic school she attended she was considered "bright, outgoing, terribly inquisitive." Later, a former secretary to Princess Grace remembered a somewhat older Caroline...
...fares fall, passengers rise and delays grow...
...sturgeon were so plentiful in East Coast rivers that the U.S. exported vast quantities of caviar to Europe.) These overlooked aristocrats have been extracted from the stream by the University of California at Davis, which plans to breed them in vast ponds like those used in the South to grow the plebeian catfish. The Le Carre element enters with Serge Doroshov, 42, who helped develop the advanced Soviet aquacultural, or fish-farming, program; he defected to the U.S. last year and joined the Davis staff. Among other things, Academician Doroshov discovered a way to speed up the sturgeon...
...about fifty-fifty. Those he can't conquer don't want to be part of a crowd?one of Warren's girls. But the Peter Pan quality in Warren is very attractive to some. He teaches them to fly, and they have extraordinary experiences with him. Then they grow up and go on, and he keeps flying. Like Peter Pan, he always comes back to another little girl who's ready to fly off with him to never-never land...