Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. "[They] took to wearing feminine-like hairdos and garments, until it became difficult to tell the sexes apart. Among the teachers and scholars was a group called the Cynics, who let their hair and beards grow, were slovenly in their dress. The morals declined. Rioting was commonplace. And all the time the twin diseases of confiscatory taxation and creeping inflation were waiting to deliver the death blow. When they finally overcame the energy and ambition of Rome's middle class, Rome fell...
...making a culture which rejects this suicidal way of life, and what sort of culture is it? Roszak reveals his urgency. He places all his hope for a humane future in the maturation of a counter culture-which, right now, is just beginning to grow...
What's more, mythology can only grow healthily in an air of confusion and uncertainty. The lives of the Beatles, once our number one hero figures, have by now been too well-reported and unambiguous to allow them god-like respect. We have all seen John Lennon picking his nose on the Tonight show, and we have all seen proof that his sexual equipment is of mercy human proportions. Deluged with well-researched information by our zealous press media, we are often confronted with heroes too human and most ungodly...
Impetus to Inflation. Toward the end of Martin's tenure, the Federal Reserve became rather too flexible. Between late 1966 and mid-1967, for example, it swung from expanding the money supply at a 1% annual rate to letting it grow at a 13.5% annual rate, then tightened it again. The last loosening occurred in the summer of 1968, and Martin now admits that it was a mistake that gave a fresh impetus to inflation...
Gypsies, vassals, whoremasters. mummers and murderers await Heron at every turn of the road. Each encounter teaches Heron something new. It is when Heron meets Claudia (Anjelica Huston), the doe-eyed daughter of a benign monarch, that he begins to grow to manhood with a fearful swiftness. He protects Claudia when the peasants sack her father's domain. The peasants are exceeding wroth. Heron and Claudia flee. But no man will give them refuge. They have only the shelter of their hearts. Perhaps it is the wind in the trees, but it surely sounds as if Heron, much...