Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they and all later comers to America -Irish, Germans, Poles, Italians, Czechs, Jews, Negroes and many others-were willy-nilly committed to a common search in a strange land. How to make a riving and a new life? How to clear the wilderness and get crops to grow? How to lay roads, dig canals and build cities? How to construct and organize factories, to find customers, and to begin to trade profitably with the rest of the world? Out of this variegated common search came a nation...
...Nietzsche observed, became the common test of peoplehood, of nationality-and of the legitimate range of government. Impassioned nationalists, like the Italian Giuseppe Mazzini, demanded that the Austrian Empire and other motley empires be dismembered. People were thought to be like different species of plants, each of which could grow properly only in its own ancestral habitat...
...report of the commission envisions a somewhat utopian community, removed by 160 miles and the Elburz Mountains from Iran's crowded urban nightmare, Teheran. The planned city is supposed to grow to include 50,000 people as well as an undergraduate college, a secondary school and health facilities...
...spirited its passengers to safety in Thailand. Danh's wife and five-month-old son are still in Viet Nam. "Maybe the new government will kill me," he says sorrowfully, "but I cannot live here without my family. I am very sad thinking that my son will grow up never knowing his father...
...bromide of American politics that Presidents "grow" in office. But some have actually shrunk in the job, and most have remained depressingly the same in character and ability. Truman was one of the few who demonstrated a capacity to change with the demands of his epoch. It is that capacity that underlies the wistful longings of Trumania...