Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AUSTRIA. The country is also best explored from small towns and villages near the crowded cities. Rural Austria can be an adventure for city children who think eggs grow in cartons. More than 4,000 farmhouses offer bed, breakfast and participation in farm life, all for between $5 and $8 a day. Village pubs serve solid, inexpensive fare, but some farmhouses allow guests to cook simple meals. The light white Austrian wine goes for $2 a two-liter bottle...
Living quietly in the depths for millenniums, blissfully unaware of the scientific quarrels about them, the worms attach themselves to rock walls and form their tough, flexible nylon-like housing as they grow. They have no eyes, mouth or gut, and absorb nutrients and oxygen through their elegant snouts. Especially fascinating to scientists is the fact that there is apparently no food shortage in this extraordinary unique ecological niche. The warming waters of undersea hot springs serve up a rich diet of bacteria and other microorganisms...
...career, he became a federal judge because of his capacities as a political fund raiser. Such are hardly the credentials for stature. But when the nation faced its gravest constitutional crisis since the Civil War, he provided a fresh instance of the American dictum: In times of extremity, men grow into their roles...
...atmosphere at Passim is Bohemiam, sophisticated, and collegiate. By day old people with beards sit and smoke pipes, middle-aged people with beards sit and read Sartre, and young people sit and grow beards. Unless, of course, they're women--in which case they do the above without the beards...
...Bowery and his dog who both make it to the majors and another in which balls, bats and gloves come alive. "I'm sure lots of people want to read the other type of story," says Tug. "But I want to present some positive things that kids can grow around." And maybe make more appearances on the literary mound than the other type guarantees...