Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese defenses, "Buck" Buckner knew, would grow even stiffer; tough fighting was bound to come. But he knew, too, that Japan's best chance to turn back this invasion-the period when the first troops were coming ashore-was gone. Perhaps counting too much on a three or four months' delay between the end of the Iwo Jima fighting and the start of the next U.S. operation, the Japs had delayed reinforcing Okinawa's garrison. Certainly the Japanese commander had pulled a major blunder; he had prepared for attack from the east and south, found himself fighting...
Officers who have served with him report him a friendly, helpful, confiding commander, likely to grow stern when things go wrong. Almost all of them gain the impression that he is several inches taller than his actual 5 ft. n. A six-inch chest expansion helps...
After the concert, the Minneapolis Symphony's conductor greeted a five-year-old backstage visitor. Patting the small, curly head, the conductor asked: "And what do you expect to do when you grow up, little man?" The boy replied: "Direct a symphony. I'll conduct your orchestra...
Crushed by Manners' death in 1928, Laurette Taylor threw over the theater and "went on what, I suppose, was the longest wake in history." When the wake ended, Actress Taylor (who is 61) was well on in middle age, very choosy-and good roles for her did not grow on trees. Says she: "It was either acting old mountaineer crones who spit tobacco juice in their son's eye-or Ibsen. I couldn't chew tobacco and I wouldn't be found dead in A Doll's House...
...confirmed him in bachelorhood. After the war he marries her. Together, in a British prisoner-of-war camp, they seek out and are coldly rebuffed by Candy's old friend, the Prussian officer. Candy's young wife dies; and the walls of his home, through the years, grow ever more thickly studded with the big-game victims of his soldierly loneliness...