Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Koch is not going to enjoy much of a honeymoon period. New York's budget problems continue to grow, and last week underwriters turned down the city's long-anticipated sale of short-term notes after the offering had been given the lowest possible rating by Moody's Investors Service. Koch also faces negotiations with the ornery Transport Workers Union, his first encounter with city unions that have warned their wage demands can no longer be deferred...
...matures and becomes more economically secure, Cambodia is retrogressing. Says Tap Ereth, a former soldier who returned to his village to farm after the fall of the non-Communist government in 1975: "From 6 in the morning until the moon began to rise, the controllers yelled at us to grow more rice. We did grow more, but it was always taken away...
...wrote for The Post from the 1930s until his retirement in 1971, wrote The Washington Post as that paper's official centennial history. He has masterfully avoided the dullness that marks many commissioned histories, and his book is a fascinating, straightforward account of how The Post watched America grow during the last century...
...even indirectly, the course of the American government. Roberts makes no attempt to analyze The Post's rise to journalistic greatness, and his strictly chronological approach to the paper's history may disappoint those who wonder what it means for society that in 40 years a bankrupt newspaper may grow to successfuly challenge the authority of a too-powerful President. But for those who want to know more about The Post than is shown in All The President's Men, Robert's book is worth reading...
Coming from an environment where he could act out his artistic ambitions to one where he can only talk about them is, however, something of a culture shock for the visiting professor. "It's like the difference between plant and animal life," he says. "Animals grow quickly, move quickly, and die quickly. Plants take a lot of time to produce something lasting, like a tree. Now I feel I'm being asked to move less and be wise more...