Word: grows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have a friend, a wife and mother, who is a splendid painter," Mrs. Wheeler said. "America would grow by seeing her art work, but she has no concept of herself as someone through whom others might learn. It's not necessary that she have this self-image, of course; but it would be nice...
...gulls can be heard in the morning, and there are crokers in the Lowell courtyard. By the Charles grow pussywillows; the balloon man is coming. Far and whee...
...power and wealth, the cities have long been deep in trouble from which they are just beginning to emerge. Through the Depression and World War II, money that could have been spent on improvement, planning and maintenance was diverted to other, more urgent causes. But the cities continued to grow as never before, as millions of unskilled and unschooled migrants from the South and other enfeebled areas poured in. Slums proliferated, crime grew alarmingly, and many middle-class families ran for the hills of suburbia. By 1947, when the municipal authorities began to take positive action, there was widespread talk...
...Growing these fattened electrons is no easy job. They are shot into the accelerator's vacuum-ring in bunches of about 100 billion, already moving at close to the speed of light and carrying 25 million electron-volts of energy. If left to their own devices, they would move in straight lines, soon hitting the ring's outside wall. But the ring is surrounded by magnets whose power can be varied accurately. When each bunch of electrons enters, the magnetism is just strong enough to make them move in a circle, keeping away from the ring...
...Kiddies being too young to write family humor for the Ladies Home Journal or McCalls must wait till they grow up when they can hit back by writing sensible novellas about their misunderstood childhoods...