Word: outgrew
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...approached and Wallace outgrew an instinctive isolationism, Roosevelt-who was anxious in any case to dump curmudgeonly old John Nance Garner as his two-term Vice President-chose his Agriculture Secretary for the vice-presidential nomination. To party strategists, Henry Wallace was the only man who could out-husk Wendell Willkie in the corn belt-and they were right. As Vice President, he headed the wartime Board of Economic Warfare, traveled to Russia, China (where he taught peasants how to use hoes Western-style) and other Allied countries, participated from the beginning in the development of the atom bomb...
...people who supposedly should know better came as no surprise to the record and radio industries. Their surveys have long shown the existence of a vast underground of adult rock 'n' roll fans, including those who were raised on Elvis Presley and, though too embarrassed to admit it, never outgrew their hound-dog tastes. Today more than 40% of the "teen beat" records sold in the U.S. are bought by persons over 20. When a Manhattan rock 'n' roll disk jockey solicited votes for a "rate the record" feature one recent school-day morning, the station was deluged with...
...said. He did, until Françise Gilot, 43, his mistress from 1944 to 1954, mother of two of his children, and author of Life with Picasso, told how he kept a goat in the house, blew his stack because she borrowed a pair of his trousers when she outgrew her own clothes during pregnancy, and boasted that "no woman leaves a man like me." Well, she did, and he filed suit in a Paris court seeking to halt the book's serialization in Paris Match as an "intolerable intrusion." "In discreet" perhaps, shrugged the court-but Pablo, voil...
...heightened sense of the good old adjective, "liberal' education.... In private conversation he had a mastery of words, a voice, a freedom, a dignity, and therefore what one might call an authority, in which he stood quite alone. Yet brilliant man as he was, he never quite outgrew a perceptible shyness or diffidence in the lecture-room, which showed sometimes in a heightened color. Going to lecture in one of the last courses he ever gave at Harvard, he said to a colleague whom he met on the day, 'I have lectured so and so many years, and yet here...
...were admitted to grammar school out of some 600 applicants. He was also a natural athlete and, of all things, a gifted soprano who took prizes in the eisteddfod, singing, as his sister put it, as if "he had a bell in every tooth." In a sense, he outgrew his family, being something more than life-size even then. A teacher-writer named Philip Burton, drama coach and English master at the Port Talbot grammar school, offered him a room in his lodgings. Cecilia and her husband agreed...