Word: growing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...level, many Americans were working shorter hours and looking for something new and personally satisfying to do in their leisure hours. Astonishing numbers of them seemed to be finding it in an almost atavistic yearning to grub in the dirt, sow seeds, nudge nature with fertilizer, watch wondrous things grow, then literally taste the fruits-and vegetables-of their loving labors at their own tables. Home gardening of all kinds, but most especially for eating, is booming in the U.S. The growing zest for growing things got its biggest boost in 1974 from the recession, climbing food prices...
Such shortcuts do not seem to diminish the satisfactions. "There is tremendous excitement in putting seeds in the ground-little pieces of nothing in the earth-and seeing them grow," declares Harold Field, a retired editor and enthusiastic gardener in New York's Westchester County. "It defies description. It's almost magical." The rising interest in pots, plots and window boxes is, indeed, a healthy trend in a mechanized society. Millions of Americans work at jobs that rarely encompass more than a step in a production sequence or a repetition of services. And they work indoors, besides...
...over the utilities. The issue's popularity reflects the situations of the groups which have adopted it. Most are large organizations. Several have annual budgets in six figures, and hundreds, or even thousands, of members who are looking for more than the pie in the sky. To survive and grow they must show results.)" What Burlingham seems to be saying is that only bureaucratic self-perpetuation is keeping people involved in the utility rates issue. Some people involved probably are interested in taking over the utilities; but Burlingham implies none are because that's his bias; he doesn't want...
...president of the Yankees watched the heroes on the field. Steinbrenner had been for-bidden by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to run his own club for two years after a conviction for giving illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon. During spring training, Steinbrenner had for-bidden his players to grow their hair too long or bushy so that they could learn to appreciate the tradition of playing in pinstripes--some wise guy commented that he'd like to see Steinbrenner in horizontal pinstripes. Steinbrenner's most recent indiscretion was in trying to foist an illegal contract on a pitcher he wanted...
Bruch sees the task of a therapist as being the rewarding of self-initiated efforts to eat by anorexics, and helping them to think for themselves and grow into individuals...