Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decentralize urban life. But his recommendations seem perfunctory. Watching his stereotype of the satisfied American teen-ager pleasurably floating in a television world, Huxley sees little real hope for the future. And when the brave new world comes, he concludes, it will likely stay forever: "Men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown...
...about equal in number, whose fertilization is internal, whose period of gestation is about nine months. The sex of the infants of this species is recognizable at birth and, in general, does not change during life. It is evident that if man were hermaphroditic like the snail or could grow a new head like the earthworm, he would not have given himself the same laws...
...sump at the dead end of Tobacco Road, and Novelist Erskine Caldwell mucked about in it so merrily that his novel has sold more than 8,000,000 copies in 25 years. Cleaned up for the cinema public, Caldwell's Acre still contains enough rich, smelly dirt to grow a mort of the sort of lettuce Hollywood loves best...
...brown-skinned peoples in a passage from the Book of Mormon, which Founder Joseph Smith produced as revelation in upstate New York in 1829. In Smith's history of the first inhabitants of America, some of the white-skinned, "delightsome" members of the Israelite tribe of Lehi grow quarrelsome and sinful after arriving in America from Israel. Result: they turn dark-skinned and "loathsome," thereby producing the American Indians. A patriarch named Hagoth builds a boat, sails away into the Pacific and is never heard of again. Many Mormons presume that Hagoth's descendants are today...
...other guy live your life, and you like him for it--the Jimmy Dean sort of guy. And when you want to rebel you grow a beard, wear levis and cowboy boots, or smoke a pipe. But is this life? If one of these fellows with their picture-book notions ever met life face-to-face it would blow up his sand castle but good. They're even afraid of cracks in the sidewalk." He pulled out a cigarette, and someone had a lighter...