Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grow lonely in muck company...
...Britain and France agreed that Western German industry should be restored to about the 1936 level. Under this plan 682 plant units from the Anglo-American zones and 233 from the French zone were earmarked for dismantling. Meanwhile, in the U.S. Congress a feeling began to grow that plant removal was a wasteful business, that it might hinder the Marshall Plan and add to the U.S. taxpayer's burden. Hoffman wants to be able to tell Congress next year that waste has been minimized...
Fire, then, is the intangible. The coaching staff has worked painstakingly this past week in bringing about a physical recovery. The seeds have been planted. It is now time for the intangibles that make things grow, to start their mysterious stirrings...
...Republican) Chicago Daily News, with the full support of other papers as far away as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Candidate Stevenson was hitting hard at graft, shakedowns and kickbacks in the state administration. Cried the News: "The Green administration . . . nourishes a swarm of grafters, chiselers and racketeers who grow bolder every year." Even if Pete Green rode into a third term on the Republican tide, socialite Lawyer-Diplomat Stevenson was learning some lessons for the future in the rough & tumble of Illinois politics. Said Stevenson: "If it's true that politics is the art of compromise...
...with a succession of vaudeville acts. Between variety turns featuring magicians, quartettes, octets, horrifyingly clever children, crooners and mock madrigal singers, Love Life chronicles the marriage of Sam and Susan Cooper (Ray Middleton & Nanette Fabray) from 1791 to the present. The Coopers are a couple who never grow older, but the Cooper union is one that constantly grows worse. Love Life's argument is that steam, speed, materialism and greed have slowly wrecked connubiality. (It might be retorted that even allegorical couples were not meant to live together for 150 years...