Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Albert's troubles were not over. Even in a losing cause, 151 Republicans and 33 Democrats voted against the appropriation. On future spending issues, less politically touchy than the pork barrel, that number seemed likely to grow...
They have a saying in eastern Kentucky-- "Wait 'till the bushes grow green." It is a password, an admonition, and a desperate expression of hope among coal miners fighting for a lost propsperity. For in summer, when the bushes are green, a man can hide with a rifle, and in the rolling hills of Kentucky, a rifle has often had a persuasive effect on coal operators...
...thinks them "oppressive." While he doesn't think the hospitals need be so elaborate ("This is not Miami Beach"), he recognizes how essential they are to the miner. Unfortunately, neither of them knows each other's thoughts. They rely on rumors for information about each other and therefore grow increasingly alienated...
...twelve-story hospital. Science and medicine will dominate, with more than ten times the space allotted to "sciences of the spirit." Theology gets short shrift, says one architect, because "they'll never discover anything world-shaking." Beams Nobel-winning Chemist Otto Hahn: "Now the university will start to grow again...
...might as well settle down to the uncompromising fact that our people will grow in proportion as we teach them that the way to have the most of Jesus and in a permanent form is to mix with their religion some land, cotton and corn, a house with two or three rooms, and a little bank account. With these interwoved with our religion, there will be a foundation for growth upon which we can build for all time...