Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lonely stations in the Arctic and tropics, men grow eyesore in their never-ending study of radarscopes. In the far Pacific, men from Navy patrols check in on the trust territory islands of Agrihan, Pagan, Aquijan, Sarigan. In the Mediterranean, while Russian "trawlers" trail the Sixth Fleet like beggars, sailors call at Tobruk to deliver and dedicate playground equipment for Libyan children. In a tightly guarded basement room at SAC headquarters in Omaha, hand-picked intelligence officers feed information on weather, geography, fuel and aerodynamics into beady-eyed monster machines that crank out 16 million computations, and then read...
...world into which we were born is gone; we have little or no idea of the world into which our children may grow to maturity. It is this rate of change, even more than the change itself, that I see as the dominant fact of our time...
...They're like Children." The Synanon curriculum is divided into three stages. During the first phase, the emotionally shaken, physically weak addict gradually adjusts to his new surroundings. Says Dederich: "Addicts are babies who look like men and women. They have to grow up emotionally. After they've kicked, they're like children, and they have to be told to turn off the lights, flush the toilet, keep their fingers out of lamp sockets." Such, for example, is Synanon's youngest member, a plump girl of 19 who was trapped by narcotics at 13. After eight...
Shortly after the first marriage a critic wrote: "His work does not change nor grow old. [But] the perennial charm and youthfulness of his stories appear a little unnatural now . . . Will Mr. Davis always remain twenty-three?" He did not. At 51, R.H.D. began to have attacks of angina pectoris. At 52, after an exhausting tour of the Western Front, he died as a good reporter might perhaps prefer to die-with the phone in his hand and a sentence in his typewriter...
Some experts believe that the fern's explosive growth is caused by nutrients in the lake water; when the nutrients have been exhausted, they argue, Salvinia will not grow so fast. Even more optimistic is a group that is trying to make Salvinia a valuable local crop; if ways can be found to harvest it cheaply, it might prove to be acceptable cattle feed, and protein extracted from its leaves might be good food for humans. One Rhodesian industrialist claims that dried, compressed Salvinia might make fine fiberboard. But none of these schemes are working yet, and the little...