Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freight uneconomic for railroads, and many small-town stops have been abandoned. The Central of Georgia used to stop at Coffee Springs, Ala., and the town made a living by ginning and shipping cotton. But the railroad ripped out the tracks that ran through Coffee Springs, and today weeds grow in what used to be busy streets. "We're going nowhere," says a longtime Coffee Springs resident. "There's nowhere we want to go." Similarly, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad drastically curtailed service to New Ulm, Texas. The town, which once had 800 residents, now has only...
There was plenty of that. Half of Iraq's army was tied down by a rebellion of the Kurdish tribesmen north and east of Mosul. Kassem began to grow suspicious of Iraq's Communists; after a series of Red-inspired strikes, Kassem jailed hundreds of Reds and condemned to death 28 Communist leaders...
...same end, Vassar and Princeton make no specific requirements. Because they took college courses in high school, 150 of Harvard's freshmen enter as full-fledged sophomores, but Harvard tries to talk them into staying a full four years on the grounds that they need time to grow...
...more than five years to admit that they have produced a moron, and then resentfully abandon him in a state school. Crushed by this rejection, Reuben vaguely longs for the parents who let him be a baby and specifically hates the psychologist-headmaster (Burt Lancaster) who demands that he grow up. One day a new teacher comes to the school, an amiable but muddled musician (Judy Garland) who represents the common confusions of feeling about defective children. At first she feels revulsion, then she feels pity, finally she feels love. All three reactions, the film asserts, are inadequate...
...Pounds of Trouble. "Muddah, when I grow wup I'm gung to be like Gary Grant." It isn't easy to be like Gary Grant, especially for a kid from The Bronx, but Bernie Schwartz meant business. At 22 he changed his name to Tony Curtis and copped a one-line bit in a B movie. "Woo, woo!" was all he said, but the second they saw him a million bobby-soxers said the same. Tony was short (5 ft. 8 in.), dark and pretty. His hair was a mass of kiss curls, his lips were...