Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first press conference in the East Room and he was bothered. There had been three questions on the pardon issue. The papers were filled with it. In the Oval Office that day, his instincts began to focus, and something told him that the issue was going to grow until something happened or he took action. His course was set. He asked for the pardon study from his counsel, Philip Buchen...
...Karakoram Mountains north of Pakistan. The 40,000 or so Hunzarwals live on barley and millet but they love apricots. In Hunza, for instance, it was long customary for a pretty girl to refuse to marry anyone who lived in one of the few places where apricots did not grow. After marriage (mothers-in-law often went along on the honeymoon) wives would practice a unique form of birth control: if a woman became pregnant she stayed away from her husband's bed until the child was weaned two years later. A Hunzarwal saying goes: "Better a home with...
...gives me a bad case of jet lag to think that the Government may have to provide a "temporary" subsidy to keep Pan Am aloft. The list of private companies kept alive with public funds must not be allowed to grow...
Davison's computer cell not only "grows" when it is "fed" the right diet of chemicals, but acts up when it is mistreated. In a year of testing, for instance, Davison found that when he subjected his hypothetical cell to disturbances -the mathematical equivalent of a dose of cosmic rays, say, or a virus-it usually died. Sometimes, however, the disturbances affected the chemical reactions involved in the synthesis of messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid), which carries instructions from DNA, the master molecule of heredity, to the cell's protein-producing machinery. Under these conditions, the cell began...
Even the Times's background round-ups--often the most interesting thing in the paper--often grow out of such unexamined biases. This summer, for example, the Times gave prominent play to a three-part series on South Vietnam by David K. Shipler. The series contained considerable information--most of it at least a year or two old--on the torture that is commonplace in the Saigon government's political prisons. Shipler laid great stress on the fact that many of those tortured are not communists, and in general the moral of the series appeared to be that the United...