Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also a schizophrenic, how could he call Mickey Mantle an "unfrocked fink"? In one of his July columns, Mr. Frazier wrote: "Mantle has such grit and gallantry as to suffuse the summery sarabands of baseball with so singular a splendor." The column ends with: "I would that my sons grow up to have the frankincense and myrrh of such magic." Please explain...
...scene. One was that the nonaligned nations now view the U.S. more favorably because of its actions in Cuba, the India-China war, the Congo and on disarmament. The other involves the increasing strains in the Communist bloc, where nationalism still persists, and where economic problems seem to be growing. "Here hopes must be tempered with caution," Kennedy said. But he indicated his certainty that Communism can breed only economic stagnation. "A closed society is not open to ideas of progress- and a police state finds that it can't command the grain to grow...
...year economic program was drafted by Celso Furtado. 42, the economist responsible for creating an admirable development plan for the blighted, Communist-target states of the northeastern Atlantic bulge. Furtado projects a 7% annual rise in Brazil's gross national product. If all goes well, manufacturing is to grow by 11.2% annually, transport facilities by 8.8%, agricultural production by 5.7%. The program will require a $4 billion investment between now and 1965, of which private industry is expected to put up two-thirds, the government one-third...
...over-all size of the library staff, however, should not decrease with the advent of the machines. "It will just grow less rapidly than it has been growing," commented Buck. He noted that the filing staff has an extremely high rate of turn-over, with the young women employed there advancing to higher positions or leaving the University...
Herbert first came into the Yard through the famous gate inscribed "Enter To Grow In Wisdom" and, ambitious Freshman that he was, determined to grow Harvard wise. He quickly learned the primary lesson that there are smooth and rough, weil-considered and ill-considered ways of saying things. It was rough and offensive not to qualify adjectives. To say, "This book is good," is too direct, too hard on the sensibilities. How much better to say, "This book is quite good," "rather good," or "sort of good." Herbert also discovered the devastating effect of the words "indeed," "thus...