Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME said of Vice President Wallace that he had failed to grow up as a politico, that in consequence, to professional politicians, "he would always have a kick-me note attached to his coat-tails." (TIME also took note of his qualities of thoughtfulness and idealism.) If Philosopher Durant regards this as roughneck editorial opinion, TIME is sorry but unconvinced...
...uniquely good record as a wartime administrator, was still the kind of man voters would love to swat at the polls. So was Presidential alter ego Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, universally believed to be the man Franklin Roosevelt had chosen as his successor, had failed to grow up as a politico: for all his good intentions and ready-made opportunities, he was still the same thoughtful, bashful, stumbling man who used to throw boomerangs at himself in East Potomac Park. To professional politicians, Democratic and Republican, he would always have a kick-me note attached...
...land Brigham Young round wasn't promising. In fact it took a good deal of imagination and a lot of irrigation to grow anything more than sagebrush in the Utah desert. But Young was a prophet who revealed God's will to his group of Saints, and they took his word as they would God's, following him across the country to settle a land that was poor picking, even for coyotes. After a few years of settling and farming the great scheme began to grow, sending missionaries to all corners of the earth in search for more Saints...
...respectively. Nearly all of this goes for income tax and upkeep of their official palaces-the kind of expenditure which the Bishop of Ely, when vainly trying to get rid of his palace in 1939, called keeping "too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants to make too many beds...
...writings of stars like Drew Pearson, Raymond Clapper, Eleanor Roosevelt. He averages 3,000 words a day, turns out all the paper's inside editorials, writes the front-page Views of the News column, does three 15-minute radio broadcasts a week. He still has time to grow so many camellias at his Pasadena ranch that he has become No. 1 U.S. commercial camellia grower...