Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something...What gets in the way is a mind saying 'Oh, no, that's wrong' or 'that shouldn't be done.' Well, what if you got rid of all those and just said. 'This is what it is. Maybe if I look at it for a while it might grow interesting...
...grooves are starting to wear out on my Elvis Costello album, and I grow more and more impatient with those who dismiss this "new wave" of really interesting music out of hand while they keep tuning in the same old Phoebe Snow when it's snowing out, or, even when it's not, allowing themselves to fall prey to a music industry which thinks it can sustain itself by suffusing everything with progressively less-and-less-thinly-veiled sexual imagery and by deifying preposterous 40-year old monstrosities like Heart and Queen and Kiss...
When, oh when, is Kevin O'Donoghue going to grow his macho mustache back...
...Gnomes, for all its early promise and despite the nearly universal "Gee, aren't they cute" feeling it engenders in the hearts of bookstore browsers, begins to grow dull. The humorous and whimsical passages begin to get lost in the voluminous survey of gnomelife. Does anybody really care how gnomes make candles or what they fill their little stomachs with at breakfast? Alas, like the book's subjects, attention span is short, and the reader begins to grow weary of Gnomes...
...glass of raw blood every day, a plate of calves' brains washed down with a beer thrice weekly, and you will grow strong and smart. So predicts David Ogilvy's Scotsman father in 1917, when the future advertising genius is a wee tyke of six. Dad speaks sooth. Young David finesses his way into Oxford, drinks, and flunks out cheerfully after two years. A charmer, this youth, right out of Fielding. By now the reader is hooked, and Ogilvy never lets...