Word: grows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the small-time politician, Harry Truman. But the politician, a self-educated ex-storekeeper, know better than we. He understood the threat of the Soviet Union, moved decisively to arm and strengthen Western Europe. Again, how fortunate for civilization that no one listened to us, as our ranks grow smaller...
CONTINENTS just sit there by the centuries, while across their terrains crops grow, peoples wax and wane, and nations struggle. Sometimes even the slowest of continents quickens into the news: Africa's burst of independence three years ago made it something more than a locale for Hemingway movies, and the Middle East region, so volatile in the mid-'sos, is becoming so again. Journalistically, it is increasingly the turn of Latin America. For too many years that area was ignored by many Yanquis, who regarded it as a place inhabited by an undistinguishably homogeneous group of Latins...
...Even Sallie Collins can't laugh off that one. "Aren't people darling? Aren't they lovely?" she asks. "They's managed to ruin all the fun Johnnie and I had together all those years. Just think, I was married twice and had two children before I began to grow up." It took public humiliation to destroy Sally's innocence...
...grocery store, walking home through commercial streets, dealing with neighbors who have nine to five jobs--make them as much a part of the city as of the academic community. If these people are lucky, they can have some of the best--and worst--of two interesting worlds, and grow up more quickly at the same time...
Illinois' enrollment of over 35,000 ranks it seventh in size among the universities in the country, but it will soon grow dramatically when a new four-year undergraduate branch in Chicago is completed. Nine thousand students are expected when it opens in 1964, and within five years it will expand to 20,000 with provisions "to grow as conditions demand beyond that time...