Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminiscent of the Nixon administration's use of new weapons as "bargaining chips" in arms-control negotiations--a tactic that more often than not spurred Soviet efforts at developing similar weapons rather than mutual reductions at the negotiating table. Moreover, such bargaining chips frequently survive arms control negotiations and grow into full-fledged components of America's defense system: the MIRVed warhead that originally was justified as a bargaining chip now is a familiar element of America's nuclear arsenal. A more effective signal of restraint to the Soviets would be a decision not to proceed at all with...
Meekly, we agree with H. L. Mencken's definition of our national character: we "constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goos-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the Middle Ages, and...grow more timorous, more sniveling, more poltroonish, more ignominious every day." How easy...
Although Radcliffe alumnae frequently lack the economic resources of their Harvard counterparts, the Fund continued to grow even during the recession of the early '70s, Wigglesworth said...
...Uganda. Coffee and cotton were Uganda's chief export crops, but Asian and European marketing expertise has gone, and exports have declined drastically. At a time when coffee is at world-record high prices, 2 million bags of it are stockpiled in Kampala awaiting buyers. "They can still grow export crops," says a U.N. agronomist, "but uncertain delivery dates and past failure to live up to contracts have turned buyers off. They can't count on supplies any more, so they have counted Uganda out." The trouble is transport to market. Only 1 in 20 trucks registered...
Didn't you hear Mrs. Carter ask the media to please lay off Amy and let her grow up a normal child? So you put her on the cover. Have you no decency...