Word: grows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Little Uganda (pop. 6,500,000, area 93,981 sq. mi.) has a variety all its own. The high Ruwenzori-the fabled Mountains of the Moon-tower over lush low lands where bananas grow in wild profusion and where a golf course allows a free stroke if the ball lands in a hippo's deep hoofprint. For the British, management of the motley protectorate has always been a matter of reconciling the demands of Uganda's proud tribal rulers, the Kings of Ankole, Toro, Bunyoro, and above all of Buganda, biggest of the four...
...exhibition opened at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery. Whether a head, a torso, a bird-like creature, or some abstract shape borrowed from nature, Heiliger sculptures have one common quality: though the artist's hands left them long ago, they still seem to move and change and grow, as if there were something alive inside...
...trying to find out why women choose to pursue a career, she discovered that "the most important variable was the girl's perception of the attitude of men toward women who work. As they grow older, more and more women tend to feel that males do not approve and that they had better go along with this attitude if they want to capture a husband...
...mother was rushing him to the doctor because he cut his finger and the car went off the road?" The young do not grasp problem-solving as a process of elimination. "Cognitive simplicity is a virtue of maturity," says Bruner. Only as they grow older do they ask "open hypothesis" questions: "Was it night? Was the driver tired? Was it raining?" Then they zero in on the answer...
Gravid Times. Von Doderer knows his city intimately and writes of a time when that city was politically gravid. Yet his people have virtually no political awareness. The two political riots in the book do not grow out of the book, they erupt into it. In fact, Von Doderer's judgment on his people may be that, ignoring the urgencies of their time, they failed to safeguard the best things in it. But half a million is a lot of words in which to make that point obscurely. One wag has dubbed the book "the Ninth Symphony of Viennese...