Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously De Gaulle must go on test ing if he is to develop his force de frappe. Some believe that the Moscow agreement puts the U.S. and Russia in league against De Gaulle and his ambitions, thereby further straining the NATO alliance. But Washington argues that De Gaulle cannot grow much more anti-NATO than he is already, and hopes, further, that le grand Charles, after swallowing his initial annoyance, may soften his stand for fear of being isolated...
...lift an elephant? A. Put him on an acorn and let it grow...
...cancers. Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi's mouse house is across the yard from the lab building. There he has tested promine and retine on hundreds of tumors. Two of the three types of tumor he works with are favorites of researchers: transplanted from one animal to another, they grow fast, and give a quick indication of a drug's effects. Promine speeds the growth of these cancers; retine makes them grow more slowly and actually causes some tumors, already well grown, to shrink. Perhaps most important, retine also works in cancers that certain mice develop naturally, which makes them...
Donovan's Reef. Boys will be boys in John Wayne movies, and everybody knows what that means: it means they're scared to grow up and be men. But they sure work hard at pretending to, and Big John (who is 56) works hardest of all. At every opportunity he battles a bottle, slugs a stooge, and generally behaves as though a man's-capacity could be measured in whisky and his importance by his punch. But when a woman appears, Big John looks suddenly small and surrounded by unimaginable terrors, like a Boy Scout trapped...
...came from Socialist and Communist Deputies who argued that it was unrealistic to talk of increasing the population while French housing remained in its present wretched state. But Debre is strongly backed by President Charles de Gaulle, who hopes that France's present population of 47 million will grow to 100 million by the century...