Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better jobs and a rising standard of living. When De Gaulle sounded him out on taking civilian control in Algeria, Delouvrier's first reaction was, "I'm not big enough for the job"-a discerning judgment. De Gaulle sought to reassure him: "Vous grandirez [you'll grow]." But after last week's events, De Gaulle significantly made no expression of confidence in Delouvrier...
...They? At a civic luncheon, he sought to discourage the nationalist's desire to secede from the federation, while assuring all concerned that he had deep sympathy for their "aspirations for self-government." As loudspeakers carried his words outside, 2,000 Africans bearing antifederation placards began to grow restless. Finally, a black policeman snatched one of the placards, and the trouble began. It quickly became a scene out of Evelyn Waugh: below, the blacks screamed and police flailed; on the hotel veranda above, Europeans calmly went on sipping their gins and whiskies...
...whole idea as revolting," the Bishop of Lichfield told the House of Lords. The Archbishop of Canterbury argued that "if it is possible to look forward from the fulfillment of a still hesitant desire to an actual remarriage to a sister-in-law, that desire is more likely to grow unchecked, and even to be subconsciously encouraged." Disregarding the churchmen, the Lords overwhelmingly voted approval of Lord Mancroft's bill...
...children busy planting gardens, teaches adults how to read, write, cook and stay healthy, and every so often breaks out her guitar for singing and dancing. "I open their eyes," says she. "Then if they won't follow my advice, it's their fault if their children grow up to be bandits...
...Africa and Latin America. This trend was first spotted two years ago by President Boyd MacNaughton, 51, of Hawaii's second largest sugar company, C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., which arranged to design and operate a 25,000-acre sugar plantation for Iran. Said MacNaughton: "If we want to grow and expand in the sugar business, we have to do it outside Hawaii and the U.S." Into the Sudan. Both Sugar International and Brewer are seeking a go-ahead from the four-year-old Republic of the Sudan to set up a joint U.S.-Sudanese privately owned sugar industry estimated...