Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gambling reflects the mood of the day. Having settled all debts the night before, people feel ready to find out what the year will bring. Children jump as high as they can behind the kitchen door in the hopes that they will grow as much as possible during the coming year, and adults wish each other prosperity countless times. No one makes resolutions in the Western fashion, however, since the future is viewed as determined more by fortune than by the individual...
Sophomore squash star John Havens: "I think he's filled Jack Barnaby's shoes very well. As far as just being a squash coach he's very concerned about everybody on the team. He sees squash as more than a game, as a way to help people grow...
...positions are held by women, female students gain experience as Presidents and Editors and Captains. Because intellectual ability is emphasized, and academic competition is accepted, students gain a sense of self-confidence and self-worth. Because these women's schools seek to create a community of scholars, young women grow in appreciation of the talents of other women...
...trend toward divided family units that isolate the aged, he says. "Just look at the scores of thousands of housing tracts in this country, where only parents and children live. Think of the impact on these children who will grow up without close proximity to grandparents. There are certain things that a grandmammy or a granddaddy can do for a child that no one else can. It's sort of like Stardust?the relationship between grandparents and children. The lack of this for many children has to have a negative impact on society. The edges of these children...
...they are rapidly acquiring the taste. As publishing houses get consumed by conglomerates, as advances grow ever larger-Simon & Schuster has just guaranteed Joseph Heller as much as $1.7 million for his next novel-more and more authors are being forced to put up or pay up. The most spectacular example of this new punctiliousness is the case of Robert Massie, author of the 1967 bestseller Nicholas and Alexandra. In 1968 Massie received a $130,000 advance from Atheneum for his next book, a biography of Peter the Great. The manuscript was due in June 1971. By then Massie...