Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From little technicalities, great frustrations grow. Look at Bob Seagren, the handsome young (20) University of Southern California sophomore and pole vaulter extraordinary. As extraordinary, that is, as a technicality in the rules will permit him to be. Seagren does hold the world indoor record of 17 ft. 2 in. But he has equaled and beaten that mark in competition this winter-and neither of those leaps will ever be noted in the record book. Last month, Bob soared 17 ft. 2 in.; two weeks ago, he went 17 ft. 31 in. -clearing the crossbar with a good...
...worse for the economy than what Leon Keyserling, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, calls "a period of stagnation." With federal, state and local government spending on the rise, with housing starting to recover from its 1966 slump, with unemployment low and incomes continuing to grow, most analysts figure the economy will move ahead firmly in the second half of the year...
...judge, in short, is a boy who has been sent to do a man's work; but the work quickly forces him to grow up. A man convicted of killing his wife runs amok on his hanging day and kills the executioner. Before a new hangman can be brought in, another man confesses to the original murder. Acquitted of that crime, the husband is then accused of murdering the hangman. The legal dilemma that confronts the young judge: Does a man have the right to kill a representative of justice in self-defense, in order to prevent a miscarriage...
...that Harvard guys are jerks," she added. "It's just not true. The guys with weird clothes who take dope aren't students. I've fed and been friends with Harvard students for many years, and I say they're the kind of kids I want my sons to grow up to be like...
Thus, it is the audacious denial of the right of innocence to a generation of American students by the CIA, abetted by NSA leaders, that hurts and makes me mad! Admittedly, we can't live like innocent students forever--we must all, alas, grow up: No society can be run by people who behave innocently; the world today is too tough a place for that...