Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat to destroy democracy that occupied center stage in his innumerable previous efforts. In its place he has contrived a threat to the Egyptian royal dynasty, stemming from the machinations of a priestly cult bent on weakening the Pharaoh and aggrandizing a mysterious golden idol. But lest his fans grow confused at this radical turn of events, he has obligingly included the familiar signposts that dot his other works: the danger of growing unrest among the unwashed masses, treachery and lunacy afoot in the councils of government, the gruesome and untimely deaths of several key characters, and a goodly share...
...major factor that your article overlooked is immigration. Legal and illegal immigration now accounts for about half of our annual population growth of 2.5 million. At these rates, our population will grow by 63 million by the turn of the century-and never stop. Also, perhaps many Americans do not need our "Love Carefully" valentine, but millions of people still do not have access to family planning services...
...glad I don't have to grow up in a society where the old fogies have the upper hand. Your childhood is the best time of your life. Can you imagine living it with a bunch of half-dead people running your life...
...hide," the superclarity of the camera's vision lends these pictures an uncanny surrealism. The trees in Wing's pictures, or Germano's, have leaves that are leafier than any your eyes perceive. To see like this is frighteningly immediate and imminent; it's like hearing the grass grow, or a squirrel's heartbeat...
...years after the Iliad, features "the wily Odysseus, the first modern hero, picking his way through a ruined and god-weakened world." In Hindu literature, the unconscious writings of the Veda give way to the subjective Upanishads, and in the Old Testament, the voices of Yahweh and prophets grow silent, replaced by subjective men wrestling with unanswered questions...