Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present time (an interglacial period), the Arctic Ocean is mostly covered with ice. Very little water evaporates from it, and so the lands around it get little precipitation, and the glaciers in Greenland and northern Canada do not grow. But if the Arctic Ocean were ice-free because of more warm water flowing into it from the south, a great deal of snow would fall on the cold northern interiors of Eurasia and North America, and not all of it would melt in summer. Glaciers would grow and march southward toward New York and Paris...
...university in Korea, it is also one of the most respected of all the nation's universities. Said President Syngman Rhee at the 70th anniversary celebration: "I express my thanks to God that our women's university has grown so large and will continue to grow. For the past 70 years, Ewha has steadfastly gone forward with a good, true goal...
...accuses her are 1) knowing little or nothing of the South and of how slavery operated, 2) promoting racial stereotypes, e.g., Topsy, the comical waif, faithful, cheek-turning Tom, 3) talking genetic nonsense about the "African race," 4) implying that a Negro's taste for freedom and education grow proportionately to his infusions of "white blood." With the aid of some 387 books, pamphlets and articles listed in his bibliography, Author Furnas raps the ghostly knuckles of Mrs. Stowe. Though Goodbye to Uncle Tom sometimes lapses into a footnotational frenzy of Ph.Dimensions, that rarely seems to dim a highlights...
FARM SURPLUS will grow this year despite heavy Government sales. Though U.S. has got rid of almost $1.8 billion in surplus goods (15% more than last year) in fiscal 1956, increased buying because of lower farm prices boosted total hoard to $8.2 billion v. $7.1 billion at end of fiscal...
...carrot; it crouched there as all rats do, as soon as dusk has fallen and there is nothing to distinguish them from a lost slipper or a forgotten rag except that long worm lying along the floor . . . that suspicious-looking shoelace that will suddenly, swift as a whipped top, grow tense with terror." Gaston of the title is a black-spotted rat, as big as a rabbit, and he is stalked through the sewers of a French provincial town by the health board and its ratcatchers as assiduously as Melville's Ahab hunted the great white whale. Like Moby...