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Word: growingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor himself took off for a weekend meeting of fellow Democrats in Las Vegas, Nev., but he left Sacramento besieged, bothered and bewildered. His mail, once 10 to 1 in favor of saving Chessman, had turned 3 to 1 in denunciation of the Governor himself. It would surely grow worse in the next 60 days, for, though Caryl Chessman had sown the wind, Pat Brown was reaping the whirlwind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: The Quality of Mercy | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...tobacco and sex from dawn to sundown, make up for it by overindulging and undersleeping during the hours of darkness. When Ramadan, on its 32-year migration through the solar calendar, happens to fall in summer, many a weary Moslem gives up, sleeps the whole fasting day through. Tempers grow short, and politics and propaganda a little sharper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TUNISIA: Breaking the Fast | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...nation's fast population growth continues during the '60s the number of new workers will grow even faster. By 1970, the study said, the U.S. work force will have risen by nearly 20% to 87 million, the largest increase in any ten-year period in U.S. history. Between 1960 and 1970, 29 million new workers will enter the work force, but the net increase will be only 13.5 million because 15.5 million workers will die or retire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The $750 Billion Challenge | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...Good Light, by Karl Bjarnhof. Finding words for the things that are too terrible for words, this sightless author goes on with the fictionalized chronicle of his descent into blindness. A luminous sequel to its moving predecessor, The Stars Grow Pale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 15, 1960 | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...years of negative results, despite the willingness of 6,000 human volunteers to catch cold for science, workers at Britain's famed Common Cold Research Unit (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) reported that they have isolated what appears to be three strains of common cold virus. They will not grow under the conditions favored by most viruses, but need a cooler and more acid medium (like the lining of human nasal passages). The strains are so choosy that some nourish only in cells from embryonic human kidneys-in which others will not grow at all. Upshot: there are probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Feb. 8, 1960 | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

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