Word: grows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
William Marimow knew better. A native Philadelphian, he had been an Inquirer reporter since 1972 and had seen the city's police grow increasingly intransigent under Mayor Frank Rizzo, the city's former top cop. The situation galled Marimow as much as it did Neumann. Joining forces, the two produced a well-documented series of articles that exposed local police brutality and that have to date led to the indictment of 15 policemen. So far nine have been convicted and three acquitted, and three are awaiting trial. Seven more cops have been arrested, and two others have pleaded...
Chinaglia believes that pro soccer must go through an evolution if it is truly to command fan loyalty. Says he: "For the sport to grow, it has to have American superstars." If the new young soccer pros are any indication, the American superstars are surely on their...
...grew healthier and stronger, she found it easier to untangle the psychological snarls that had tripped her. Analysis helped; born old, Gelsey decided that it was time to grow up. "I had to want to get well," she says. "I had to have the desire to dance again and work." Gradually it came. She picked up with A.B.T., at first not dancing at full strength. Those who knew what she had been through crossed their fingers, held their breath and marveled. Says Williams: "That she survived all that is remarkable." Soon the "steel-like legs" were as pert as when...
...river, and the lambs of the flock lived in the big green yard. Each year thousands of lambs tried to get into Vard only to be told that there was just so much pasture land to graze on and they would have to find other meadows to grow up in, like the Yale field to the southwest...
...leadership role it had grown accustomed to. Instead of letting sheep eat whatever kinds of apples they wanted, like MacIntosh apples, and little green apples and tasty golden ones, he would have all the sheep eat the same thing--the cores of the apples. Then they would grow up to be liberally educated sheep, Roso the bear said. His assistants, Michael the Walrus and James Q. Stallion, said Roso was right as usual, and urged the animal council promptly to agree to the core plan...