Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World government," he summed up, "is not a part of the picture I paint. Such a government has inherent defects similar to those of disarmament agreements. This idea of peace under law can grow out of the enlarged use of law by the world community and does not require any 'super' or other world legislative body...
...Nikita Khrushchev's Russia the "new class" of elite bureaucrats is learning to have class. Moscow's GUM department store now features the sack, as well as Western-style swimsuits (see cuts). Explains the fashion show commentator: "The masses will grow accustomed to dresses as high as 14 inches from the floor." But neither the masses nor the class will be able to buy the dresses-only the materials and patterns. The cost for one dress: about two weeks...
Secular Paradise. The disparity of faiths and backgrounds that makes it hard for Harvard students to worship together, said President Pusey in his baccalaureate speech, "promises to grow worse rather than better in the years to come." But religion in a secular university confronts a far more significant difficulty: "the advance of secularization." Despite academically polite language, Pusey took a sharply critical look at this "way of life which . . . proceeds deliberately without concern for religion." So great have been the successes of secularism that it "has itself become a faith and raised a hope that man can through...
Then she decided. Under her headdress she let her shaved hair grow a bit; from material sent in by friends she secretly stitched herself a skirt and blouse. One night she changed her clothes and mingled with visitors who were leaving the convent. "Buona sera," she nodded to the gatekeeper, and stepped out into the lighted street...
...slaps him then, and he walks out, and the next day he comes back for his clothes. "I've tried; I've done my best," he tells her. "I've stayed and I've provided. Now I'm not going to stay here and grow old and die. I've wanted something better than this. You had the children, [and] you loved them the way you could never love a man." Alma doesn't understand, but she forgives. "Jack," she sniffles, "I'll be worrying about you." "Alma," he sighs...