Word: grows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the outset, Frei ran into trouble. He was attacked by the right for moving too fast and by the left for going too slowly. Allende's Socialist Party continued to grow, picking up defecting left-wing Christian Democrats and uniting with other opposition parties. It became a case for the CIA. A station chief had been sent to Santiago in 1964; later the agency's presence began to multiply in preparation for the 1970 election, when Frei would be constitutionally barred from seeking a second term and Allende would pose more of a threat than before...
...book is worth thinking about. It's a collection of nine brief stories, each self-contained and too brief for much character development or even action. Bromell is content to catch the thoughts of his characters and let their personalities and histories fend for themselves. The stories grow on you, reminding you first of things that have already happened to you; later, things that happen seem to echo them...
...from his parents' life as Long Island country squires--hunting, fishing and putting up Christmas trees. Although he soon becomes disaffected with his job, he is compensated by the life of a diplomat: a few years here, a few years there, never staying in one place long enough to grow restless or attached to the surface of things. His three sons--Scobie, Matthew, and Quentin--grow up in snatches, in Kuwait, London, Athens, Switzerland. Each time Laura looks again at them she is awed by the opaque process through which they are being transformed from children who were once extensions...
...severe fertilizer shortage is one cause of famine in sub-Saharan Africa and India. He was shocked to learn that Americans annually keep their lawns and shrubs verdant with the help of 3 million tons of fertilizer, slightly more than the entire supply that was available to India to grow food during...
...again, the mirage rises on the horizon that a speech here and there, a book or two and some visits by Billy Graham will bring Nixon back to life. What is more apt to happen is that the full guilt of Watergate will take root on his doorstep and grow. In all likelihood his alienation from his fellow Americans will get worse. The polls indicate that they perceive him not only as one who violated his presidential trust but, in the end, as a man of such shallow courage and character that he could not confess his own fault...