Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Journey [May 19], you say, "More than half of all hemophiliacs die before the age of five. Even with regular transfusions ... only 11% live to age 21." This derives from a paragraph in which I was describing the situation at the turn of the century. Today almost all hemophiliacs grow to adulthood and, once there, can expect to live a relatively normal life span...
...have succeeded each other at one or two year intervals since Nkrumah's fall have done nothing. "He built what roads, hospitals, and schools there are, and the government is letting them fall apart. Ghana is being fed by the long-range planting projects Nkrumah started--almost anything will grow in this soil--but nobody is innovating any more...
...many measures, the women's movement continues to grow. In the years since TIME'S special issue, for example, the membership of the National Organization for Women, the largest feminist group, has grown from 12,000 to 55,000. The Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress in March 1972 and has been approved since then by 34 of the 38 states required for ratification. (Recently, however, the momentum for ratification has slowed, and North Carolina's rejection last month destroyed any chance for final approval this year...
Most U.S. Government secrets grow banal with age, but the very fact of their secrecy gives some of them an odd fascination. An enterprising publishing company called the Carrollton Press has begun selling microfilms of formerly classified documents that have entered the public domain as a result of amendments to the Freedom of Information Act (TIME, April 14). The Washington, D.C., firm's collection of 8,000 documents goes for $1,575. It includes such minutiae as then Ambassador to France Charles Bohlen's 1964 memorandum to Lyndon Johnson on Charles de Gaulle's tactics of "mystification...
...many fields--Chinese jades, early Renaissance Italian painting, 19th century French painting, and prints, for example--its holdings are among the strongest anywhere in the world. The Fogg's "friends," who have donated over 90 per cent of the museum's works, make the collection seem to grow by itself, according to Rosenfield. In the Fogg's one weak area, that of modern art, Slive plans to strengthen it, while in the field of "art and anthropology" he plans to expand it, in conjunction with the Peabody Museum...