Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They already have to absorb the current 75? subsidy. The increase, added to the basic support price of $1.25, would guarantee farmers a $2.50-per-bushel price for wheat they grow under federal acreage allotments...
...literate or illiterate−who does vote in future elections will have to bear with the ordinary frustrations of democracy: broken promises, corruption, demagoguery, the essential voting weakness of a minority. Perhaps Negroes will at first elect a number of Adam Clayton Powells. But Negro political influence will grow in outright victory of Negro candidates in constituencies where Negroes are a majority, in balance-of-power situations elsewhere, in the minds of vote-hungry politicians everywhere, in political combination with the majority of whites, who wish the Negro well...
...newest offshoots, Algeco is also offering investors parcels of freshly seeded forest land for $800. Though the investor must wait 30 years for his trees to grow up, Algeco's executives claim that each parcel by then should be worth more than $4,000−which, they point out, is enough to provide a fetching dowry for a daughter...
...hand slides into view across a sheet. A man's hand appears and clasps its wrist. Then his fingers languidly caress a knee, a shoulder, an elbow, a torso. And all in the clear, shadowless light of an operating room. At last the fragments of anatomy grow heads: Charlotte and Robert. They are lovers, and as they get dressed, they communicate in cool, laconic monotones, like intergalactic messages across the light years...
Rotten to the Core. Halfway through this eccentric British comedy about a pack of bumbling criminals, moviegoers whose memories reach back a decade or so are apt to grow nostalgic and inquire rhetorically: Guinness, anyone? Rotten invites comparison to Sir Alec's memorable extralegal capers in The Man in the White Suit and The Lavender Hill Mob, but its low-jinx omits such essentials as wit, slyness and style...