Word: home-grown
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...communists, home-grown and foreign, are bitterly anti-Roxas. But Roxas, strongly pro-American and by far the most talented public man in the Philippines, could be counted on to take care of himself in a hot argument. -In bombed-out Manila no big public halls or buildings remain standing...
DeVoto thinks the big corporations have taken over from the millionaires and museums to make home-grown art possible. To prove it, Portrait of America has six paintings from the Pepsi-Cola contest, ads for Kaywoodie pipes (each with a pipe smoker) and the U.S. Brewers' Foundation (in which brown bottles appear). But to labor DeVoto's thesis, Portrait has to omit the best examples of art in advertising: the Container Corp. of America's series by foreign artists (TIME, Apr. 30). The book contains a few interesting pictures (some of them badly reproduced), such as Grant...
...thing that had made irritable Editor Ross blow his top was the discovery that the Digest was no longer a digest, that many of its articles were home-grown in its own commodious nursery at Pleasantville, N.Y. and "planted" in other publications- for eventual transplanting back to the Digest. Said Ross: "This gives us the creeps...
West Pubnico has prospered during the war. In season the hardy Pubniconian men go after lobster, herring, mackerel and tuna. Winters they repair their nets, tend their cows and chickens, live off their home-grown vegetables and the fish they salted away, and generally take life easy in their tidy, white-frame homes which are clustered about Father Leblanc's St. Peter's Church...
...learned that the fighter pilot had been killed. Said the Strong Man, chalk-white and shaken: "We have been born a second time." Later he took a train back to Buenos Aires, where imaginative Argentines, with no foundation in fact, were already calling the fallen pursuit pilot a home-grown version of Japan's Kamikaze pilots. One proposal that was bandied about: a monument to the man who had scored a near miss...