Word: grows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another expression of man's sinfulness is the inability of Schulz's characters to change for the better: fuss-budgety Lucy is destined to grow from "the crabby little girl of today" to "the crabby old woman of tomorrow"; "good ol' wishy-washy" Charlie Brown will be forever friendless, always the losing pitcher in 184-to-O baseball games. Trapped by what Cardinal Newman called "some terrible aboriginal calamity," Schulz's characters never seem able to keep up with the world. As Linus puts it: "How can you do 'new math' problems with...
...indeed, things seem to be retrogressing so rapidly these days that the differences in style between Lyndon Johnson and Andrew Jackson grow ever less noteworthy. Old Hickory, it will be remembered, used to invite crowds off the street to come into the White House and drink corn whisky...
...Cooke was careful to point out that for the vast majority of women and their babies, the prevailing intake of vitamin D does no harm. But in unpredictable cases, any excess over normal requirements causes unnatural calcium deposition in the fetus: its bones, especially the base of the skull, grow unusually dense, and chalky deposits narrow the aorta. Sometimes the aorta is narrowed around the origin of the renal arteries so that the kidneys are starved of blood and the affected baby suffers from extremely high blood pressure...
...Tuscany, Umbria and Emilia-Romagna, became the biggest party in Florence. The Christian Democrats were off more than 1% from last year, 3% from 1960, and lost 59 provincial council seats throughout the country. The Nenni Socialists slipped badly. Of the minor parties, only the conservative Liberals continued to grow. The party position for the past few years...
...singers sing harder and the orchestra plays harder. Co-ordinating this production is almost impossible. It's not as hard as Verdi or Wagner, but the music never quite fits with the singing. Still, Mozart is real opera. And I want to be an opera singer when I grow...