Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Power veto could not shut off discussion. UNO was already the focal point for issues that disturbed the world's peace-despite Russia's blunt insistence fortnight ago that nothing except the Big Three really mattered. Hope rose last week in London that it might grow from a forum to a town meeting in the effective New England sense...
Casualties reached 23 dead, 600 wounded. The Bombay battle roared on through three days, and subsided inexplicably just when police expected it to grow fiercest-on the 17th anniversary of the Congress party's demand for independence...
...friends were not too happy that UNO had been asked to handle it. Anxiously some advised Iran not to expect baby to get up and walk before it was strong enough to climb out of the cradle. The less sentimental had another view: baby would grow strong only by exercise; if baby did not act now it would not be any stronger five, ten or thirty years from...
...better poet, ranked Wordsworth just below the greatest poets: "Dante, Shakespeare, Molière, Milton, even Goethe, are altogether larger and more splendid luminaries in the poetical heaven over Wordsworth. But I know not where else, among the moderns, we are to find his superiors." As the modern skies grow darker, the comets sizzle into oblivion, and the novas burn themselves out, the body of Wordsworth's best work shines with the steadiness of those far suns whose light reaches us over unimaginable distances. To Wordsworthians, Wordsworth at his best is the greatest English practitioner, after Milton, of that...
...employer & employe get this far, said Ford, they could go on "toward more certain, more stabilized employment," make U.S. industry "a place in which men and women can grow and develop into better jobs...