Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partly to blame was the U.S. engineer who designed the water system, not dreaming that the city would grow from 332,000 to half a million in seven years. But Bogota boosters were not in a mood to boast. Only the local temperance leaguers felt like rejoicing: the flow of workingmen's chicha (corn beer) was also drying...
...ancient city of Abydos, the great Temple of Seti I, finished in the reign of Rameses II (1324-1258 B.C.), is settling into the soft subsoil while cracks in its walls grow dangerously wider. On the Island of Philae, close to the Aswan dam and artificial lake, the Kiosk of Trajan (1st Century B.C.), in recent years so submerged that often only its upper half could be seen, has collapsed completely. On the same island, the Temple of Isis is in such danger that Egyptians have planned to move it to a safer spot...
Hank "the Broon" Sheller and Red English spent six days of their leave together--on the train. Tom Wilcox, "Dreamboat" Walker, Sam Wolf, et al, let no grass grow under their respective feet, for they all had dates immediately after returning to the Hub. What were your dates' names, boys? What do you mean, you don't know...
Geneva, now run for the Government by Big Steel, is fondly regarded by Westerners as the best bet to bring them cheap postwar steel, let them grow into their industrial long pants. But until Big Steel broke its toplofty silence, no one was willing to gamble on the prospects of Geneva doing...
After a year and a half of liberation, Sicilians were half-starved, wretched, rebellious. The Allies' swift but grueling Sicily campaign had razed many of its towns and villages, reduced its food supplies to a bare existence point. What grain they had been able to grow, the profit-minded Sicilians had sold to the Roman market at handsome prices. Hunger and discomfort (shoes cost from $70 to $100 a pair) had fed the fires of rebellion and separatism. Separatist leaders, like the politician Andrea Finocchiaro-Aprile, had kept them stoked. When they died down a little, the Italian Government...