Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential-election year of 1960, Democrats charged that the Republican Administration had imperiled the nation by permitting a "gap" to grow between the U.S. and Russia in the development of long-range missiles. That turned out to be wrong...
...Lavrentyev, vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a Capitol visitor. Although Lavrentyev does not smoke, he graciously tried to boost-or perhaps undermine?-the morale of tobacco addicts with an apposite Russian proverb. The heavy smoker, said Lavrentyev, will never be burglarized and will never grow old, "because he stays up all night coughing-and won't live long enough to enjoy...
...back blessings from Jerusalem where I celebrated Mass this morning. I have had the fortune to embrace, after centuries and centuries, the Patriarch of Constantinople, and to exchange with him words of peace and fraternity. Let us hope that these beginnings bear good fruit and that the seeds grow to maturity...
...after a few days the combatants will grow nervous as their interaccins squabbles are aired before millions of fascinated television viewers. Someone, perhaps General (and former President) Eisenhowever, may say "William Scranton" (say it soft and it's almost like praying). The sounds of battle will cease. Knives will be cleaned and resheathed. Men of good will, weary now, will link arms in brotherhood and the faithful will chorus "William Scranton." Then they will cry together "Mark Hatfield," and the only man ever to campaign for the vice-presidential nomination for nine years will assume second place on the ticket...
...more hardheaded basis than it is now. Since Harry Truman launched the Point Four program of aid to underdeveloped countries in 1949, every President has argued that aid to struggling nations serves the national interest because, as Secretary of State Dean Rusk put it recently, "as others grow in economic strength, so the U.S. will continue to prosper...