Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...destiny is bound up with the destiny of America-we built it for two centuries without wages, we made cotton king, we built our homes and homes for our masters and suffered injustice and humiliation, but out of a bottomless vitality continued to live and grow. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not extinguish our existence, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We feel that we are the conscience of America-we are its troubled soul...
Rocket and bright balloon climbed through space together, the balloon appearing to grow smaller as it forged ahead. As the pair of space travelers passed their apogee (922 miles) and fell faster and faster toward the earth, the balloon appeared to shrink to a bright speck. Tracked by the following camera, the big silver sphere hit the fringes of the atmosphere and disappeared in a puff of smoke. The show ended a few moments later when the rocket and TV camera also burned...
...intellectuals-including Biologist Sir Julian Huxley and Historian Arnold Toynbee -has posthumously sponsored publication of his major works. Teilhard, who was known in his lifetime as one of the discoverers of the Peking Man, thought of himself as "a pilgrim of the future," and his reputation continues to grow: a museum in Paris bears his name, more than 500 monographs and 30 books have been written about him since his death, and last month 40 top European scholars gathered in Venice for a seminar to discuss his ideas...
...LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE: I feel how much the exploration of the earth in itself fails to bring any light or point out any solution to the most fundamental questions. And I know, too, that the wider the problem seems to grow be fore my eyes, the more clearly I see that its solution can only be sought in a 'faith' beyond all experience...
...down among Brazilians, Coffee beans grow by the billions So they've got to find those extra cups to fill They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil...