Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tower." The question-and-answer passages could have been custom-scripted. What about those Republicans who criticize his conduct of the Viet Nam war? Just give them time, L.B.J. suggested. Some day they may grow up to be good Republicans-like the "distinguished Secretary of Defense" once was, or Dwight Eisenhower, whose diplomatic, political and military wisdom has been "a tower of strength...
Whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. -Gulliver's Travels...
...food and fiber the U.S. can grow. "If I am right, and I'm afraid I am," he said, "very much more food will be urgently needed within a short time to avert world calamity." The challenge to the U.S. is to devise new and constructive ways to harness overproduction, to make Godsent abundance a blessing, not a curse...
...grower, consumer and notoriously tetchy voter, the U.S. farmer today is a rough-knuckled realist. Yet he has a wide streak of idealism. Those who, like Shuman, decry federal management of agriculture, do so in part with the prideful assurance that every attempt to keep the U.S. farmer from growing more food is doomed to failure. Today, thanks to revolutionized technology, the man who can make two ears of corn grow where one did before knows well that tomorrow there will be three-or four...
...civil war, which by all tradition is the worst kind of war there is. Living for the rest of their lives in the long gray shadow of the Lost Cause, Lee's men were nevertheless going on toward the future. Pride in what they had done would grow with the years, but it would turn them into a romantic army of legend and not into a sullen battalion of death...