Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...excitement. Take skindiving. There are now some 8,000,000 U.S. skindivers, about 1,000,000 of them skilled with scuba. Merely to minnow about underwater is no longer enough, and such sports as octopus wrestling are coming increasingly into vogue, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, where the critters grow up to 90 Ibs. and can be exceedingly tough customers. Although there are several accepted techniques for octopus wrestling, the really sporty way requires that the human diver go without artificial breathing apparatus...
...described the Western Reserve Law School as "a small school at the threshold of considerable growth change." With only an acting dean, it has lacked leadership for several years, he said. Now, he explained, the university has decided to provide "much-needed resources for the law school to grow, develop, and flourish...
Confusingly, Giulietta's perceptions grow so extravagantly heightened that they blur the line between reality and fantasy, and depolarization occurs. The rich, constantly bedazzling frieze of effects finally becomes an end in itself, resulting in a curiously empty drama. Instead of deepening the character of his heroine as he intends, Fellini overwhelms her, for the thousand-and-one-nights imagery he has flung pell-mell upon the screen seems organic only to his own turbulent imagination. Though Juliet of the Spirits offers bizarre and enticing spectacle, it is transparently a gaudy intellectual shell game that expends awesome amounts...
...show teaches you a lesson: marry a girl who likes to shoot crap. I knew that already, but this is a fun way to learn. When I grow up I want to be Nathan Detroit...
...This early disillusionment with the technique of my co-workers was to grow during the summer, though I never said anything about it. On the other hand I can't condemn their tough talk entirely. Americans are too often convinced that you can persuade people to do anything if you are reasonable and smile enough...