Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw, either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement...
Nonetheless, even in California, where legend has it that anything will grow if it is merely watered, aspiring green-thumbers are warned by experts that a successful garden is no whimsical undertaking. The first step is to pick a fertile, well-drained patch that gets as much sun as possible. For the average family, advises Derek Fell, director of the National Garden Bureau and author of a new book, How to Plant a Vegetable Garden, a plot 15 ft. by 25 ft. can save $250 or more above its investment in seeds (about $12) and tools. Fell recommends 18 varieties...
Under Roman law, all buildings must receive municipal permits before construction begins. The idea is not only to ensure that the structures are sound but also to require builders to follow Rome's 1965 master plan, which specifies where and how the city should grow. Instead of the planners' vision of broad boulevards in town and garden communities on the outskirts, the illegal building has spawned a chaotic jumble of drab office and apartment towers on narrow, treeless streets. By one estimate, 300,000 people-the equivalent of the population of Wichita,Kans.-now live or work...
Vietnam's farmers, and its farmers-turned soldiers, will go back to growing rice and raising pigs, probably on lands no longer owned by large landlords and with the beginnings of co-operative labor. The celebrated Vietnamese orphans--from a country where there was hardly a word for "orphan" until massive American intervention strained Vietnamese families' traditional generosity beyond its capacity for resilience--will grow up peacefully. These children of the war, the "nieces and nephews" to whom Ho Chi Minh directed his last testament, will once again find a secure place in a secure social fabric. And because that...
...talk, someone asked Evans what it was like to grow old. "Wonderful said Evans. He described it as a "relief" at "immensely happy period" in which one is "able to reflect, consider," and "see things with greater sensitivity." Feelings and impressions are heightened not blunted and everything is "more sensual even...