Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evidently Brundage hopes the furor over South Africa will grow quiet in the two months he expects to pass before the IOC's executive board discusses the issue. Then, if the controversy still exists, there would be another period of months before the 72 nations could assemble. Brundage may well feel that by then, just before entries close in August, the excitement generated by Olympic trials throughout the world will chill the dispute. At any rate, he intends to procrastinate...
...perform a fire dance, and the mesmerism is like that of a bull-fight. The drums and the singing grow quiet as the two men, both stripped to the waist, both black as the night, dance with torches in each hand. They pass the torches over their bodies and let the flames lick their faces. They walk on hot coals and seem to wash their bodies in the fire--which does not burn because the voodoo god protects his dancers...
Glimp said that a regular review of the Board's practices was essential because of the Board's "lack of any standard operating manual." "Procedures tend to grow up to meet the needs of the day, and then they hang around as precedents," he said. In order to get "a new look at what we're doing," Glimp said he would appoint several professors who have never served on the Ad Board to the new committee...
...example, when there were only four gasoline-powered vehicles in the United States, two were in St. Louis, Missouri, and managed to collide with such impact as to injure both drivers, one seriously. Thus was introduced a form of pathology that was to grow steadily from that year to this. It was accompanied by countermeasures not less pervasive in their impact on society...
...been ill and be attempting to atone for unconscious guilt or something. But these are not the basic motivations. I don't know what the basic motivations are. They relate to efforts to establish their own value, their own work, their own capacity, their own ability, and to somehow grow from wherever they are to some other place they want...