Word: growed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Grow old along with me!" said Robert Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra. "The best is yet to be." Meyer Lansky, 75, the Russian-born Methuselah of the underworld, once directed Murder, Inc., held the Mafia franchise for Havana and brought organized gambling to the Bahamas; but he has survived all to become a little old Miami Beach senior citizen. Now he lives quietly, Lansky told a visitor from the Miami News, enjoying a complete absence of memory ("There is no such thing as organized crime"). What does he do with his spare time? Well, he reads: "Lately, philosophy-just...
...week Judge Donald Barbeau of Hennepin County district court reached his decision on the unusual case. "Dehumanization is widespread," he declared. "To allow the use of a number instead of a name would only provide additional nourishment upon which the illness of the dehumanization is able to feed and grow." With that, the judge rejected poor 1069's request...
Motherwell said he normally works on many things at once and "lets them grow like a garden." When he gets stuck on a painting he said, he often tries working on it in a frame, a technique Matisse had used...
...America's children, rich and well-off as well as poor, in the hope that some day, one day soon, all boys and girls everywhere in the world will have a decent chance to survive, grow, and affirm themselves as human beings...
Coles's observations culminate in two main themes: entitlement and paternalism. His observations of the rich in Privileged Ones grow into a theory, even though Coles wishes to keep himself from over-simplifying or generalizing. The word entitlement, according to Coles, was first uttered to him by a wealthy man--a lawyer and a stockbroker from a prominent family who was describing a social phenomenon that he saw in his children. Coles has adopted the idea to "describe what perhaps all quite well-off Americans transmit to their children--an important psychological common denominator, I believe: an emotional expression, really...