Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should be pushed upward and forward in the Eisenhower-led G.O.P. In pointing to men like Craig as the coming leaders of the party, the President has recognized a key fact of political life in the U.S.: much of the government and most of the politics sprout and grow in the states; what happens in the 48 capitals has a determining effect on the caliber of men who appear in national politics and on the quality of government they produce...
Residents of Penticton (pop. 14,000) grow fruit to earn their living, but they live for hockey. On road trips the team is ferried by volunteer drivers in private cars; a women's auxiliary washes the players' jerseys and darns their socks. During the playoffs for the Canadian championship last May, when an elderly lady collapsed of a heart attack, she surprised no one with her last words: "Go see who scored that goal!" The entire team attended her funeral...
...natives evidently are reconciled to political supervision. Formosans soon will enter the nationalist army, an indication that Chiang's reforms have at least partially conciliated the native population. There is no guarantee, however, that these inductees, who will form an increasingly larger part of the army as the nationalists grow older, will fight willingly. Nor is there any certainty that the Formosans will accept another Nationalist Chinese ruler, once Chiang dies. But the extent to which Chiang can continue his reforms and bring Formosans into his government will largely determine the outcome of these issues...
...Communist policies may appear, from time to time, more accommodating. But Communist actions have so far provided no real ground for believing that the threat to the Free World has sensibly diminished," said the white paper. "[Communist] military strength continues to grow at an impressive rate . . . The Soviet Union and her Eastern European satellites have some 6,000,000 men under arms. On the German front, the Soviet army could be increased to well over 100 divisions within 30 days...
...Wayward Saint (by Paul Vincent Carroll) is a St. Francis-like Irish canon, who-to his own and his bishop's distress -gets a name for sainthood thrust upon him. His noticeable talents for talking to birds, healing children and making plums grow on cherry trees have forced the bishop to banish him to a remote country parish. There, in the form of a worldly baron, appears an emissary of the Devil, panting after such a trophy as the soul of a saint. Under the baron's prodding, the canon begins to think he really is a saint...