Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undercover men also had let their hair and beards grow long and scraggly. They dressed shabbily and took on menial jobs-yard work, house painting, truck loading-that did not demand Social Security cards, driver's licenses or other forms of identification that could have been traced by the militants' friends...
...hour job of combing out matted hair in the dog's undercoat. In fact, many owners tire of the excessive grooming, and abandon their sheepdogs to dog pounds and humane societies. Sometimes, the dogs are casualties of divorces and job transfers, or they may be left behind because they grow larger and more rowdy than their owners had expected...
Three cheers for the attackers of the new nonsense and your article about them. As the quality of education in America erodes, the success of the many new brands of charlatanism seems to grow proportionately...
...still raised from the river by having a cow or blind-folded water buffalo turn a primitive screw or a crude wooden lift balanced by a weight of mud. The ordinary meal of an Egyptian fellah still consists of foul beans; moulekieh, a soup made of the greens that grow among cotton plants, is a dish reserved for special days...
...empires?from ancient Rome to modern Britain?that have been weakened or crushed by the weight of bureaucracy are too numerous to be ignored. The U.S., of course, is a long way from such a fate, but the warning signals have been flashed. Once bureaucracy has begun to grow, it is devilishly hard to restrain, much less reverse its advance. Such is the challenge that faces America. As he approaches his second year in office, Jimmy Carter could adopt no more crucial resolution than to keep his campaign promise to cut back Big Government...