Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thank goodness this country has Senator Byrd, who knows that apples grow on trees, to keep check on President Kennedy, who thinks that money grows on trees...
...years Holloway and Huffaker tempted the weevil with other plants. They found that the worst the weevils would do was to take an occasional bite out of alfalfa or flax if there was no puncture weed around, but they also discovered that the weevil's larvae could only grow in the pods of puncture vines. Convinced that the weevils were safe enough for large-scale experiments, the biologists imported 15 from Italy early this year and turned them loose to feast on a private garden of puncture weed. Now they have a crop of more than 100,000 weevils...
...Seated by Cooper's side throughout his testimony was Brooklyn's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and Cooper's sponsor. Invited to testify, Celler praised Cooper's record and declared: "Any man whose blood does not at times grow hot at the sight of evil or in the presence of utter incompetence isn't worth a pinch of snuff...
...last week, the great changeover in U.S. defense plans from aircraft to missiles had boosted San Diego's unemployment to 8.8%. Worse yet, this figure is likely to grow higher, for the single major missile produced in San Diego is Convair's liquid-fueled Atlas, a weapon that the Air Force is gradually phasing out in favor of the solid-fueled Minuteman (major contractor: Boeing, in Seattle...
...more modest of the second houses are often used only on weekends, but the great majority become summer-long retreats (or, for many, winter retreats) where the children grow up for three months, mother is released from the tedium of city or suburban life, and dad, after rushing out of his office at 5 on Friday and making the trek by auto, train or boat (or a combination of all three), can take his leisure for at least a few days in sylvan surroundings. It is no matter that he must often drain his bank account to carry the second...