Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all the complaints, the cutbacks will continue, and the CIA's covert branch will grow leaner, if not tougher. Perhaps the ultimate worry is one raised by a U.S. counterintelligence expert: "If the situation were reversed, and I learned that the Soviet KGB was firing more than 800 people, I would expect our Moscow station chief to recruit somebody-or be fired himself...
...weekly shoppers give it annual revenues of $1.9 billion and profits of $184 million, both more than four times those of its largest competitor, British Home Stores. But M & S has so saturated the middle-brow market with its reverse-chic lines that it has little room left to grow there. So, eagerly, it is starting to change. Last month it opened its first "up market" store in London's smart Kensington district. M & S has also opened stores in France and Canada; its U.K. branches now stock such previously unavailable luxury items as pure cashmere coats, glassware, fine...
...able to take a gentleman's preoccupation with the proper use of leisure and turn it into journalistic subject matter capable of engaging his abilities to the fullest. Shadow Box is another Plimpton tour de force, and a vindication of one American boy's determination to never grow...
...Carle's bright, elemental The Grouchy Ladybug (Crowell; $6.95) is about a mite spoiling for a fight. But every opponent has a stinger, a scent or a size that is superior. Carle has designed the book to fit the tale: as the heroine meets larger animals, the pages grow in size. None of the confrontations manage to sweeten the insect's disposition. That transformation is accomplished by powers that neither ladybug nor reader can resist: hunger and exhaustion...
...years ago was a 66-acre potato farm, was founded by Alex Hargrave, 31, who holds a Harvard M.A. in Chinese studies, with the help of his wife Louisa, who studied wine chemistry, and his brother Charles. The Hargraves plant only vinifera, no hybrids. Remarked Alex: "If you can grow avocados, why grow brussels sprouts?" In spite of the Hargraves' recently planted vines and inexperience, their Sauvignon blanc was given top rating among New York wines tasted recently by Wine Author Alexis Bespaloff (The Fireside Book of Wine) and Vintage Magazine Publisher Philip Seldon. Seldon was also "impressed with...