Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jack Lemmon might pass for a businessman, except that he moves too quickly and talks too volubly. He has close-cropped dark hair and large expressive eyes which grow increasingly intense as he warms to a particular subject. "Almost everybody I know is crazy about this guy," said the producer of a rival play, sitting in on the interview. "Success hasn't changed him a bit, not a bit. Look at him. He doesn't even know how good he is. No use asking him what makes him funny. He won't tell...
...member of the press corps, TIME'S Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens. Since Khrushchev had last seen him, Stevens, while on vacation. had grown a rusty beard. Later, in a bantering mood, Khrushchev likened the beard to Pushkin's, and predicted that Stevens would never grow a beard like Fidel Castro...
...obituary, one of his legal colleagues feelingly phrased the thought: "As he stood at the bar of the court, pleading for some victim of fortune's scourge, he seemed to acknowledge at least part of the guilt in being a member of a society which permitted children to grow up in sordid slums, amid ugliness, vice and crime . . . He was more than a public defender. His attitude was almost that of co-defendant...
...rusty wheel. The ultimate social question in the case of scholarship students from poor or minority group families is that of motivation, how to break out of the vicious circle set up by the fact that people draw their values and dreams from the atmosphere in which they grow up. Last year, Monro expressed the kind of bind that admissions officers often get into: "You break your back getting some tough little kid from the slums to come here, you give him a full scholarship, and then he leaves in the middle of his freshman year because he just...
...many unhappy results of this policy--technicians abandoning projects for which funds were not renewed, bridges half-built, food improperly stored--surely should have convinced congressmen that long-term projects are worth the trouble it takes to formulate them. Without a guarantee of capital, a nation trying to grow economically is in a sorry spot.) As Black shrewdly, if somewhat oddly, puts it: "The concept of planning is bedeviled equally by the suffocating embraces of its idealistic champions and the cynical shafts of its detractors...