Word: outgrow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Outgrow the Easter bunny and jelly bean bit years ago. Got no new clothes to show off. There's the Easter Parade song--remember how cool you felt when you found out what a rotogravure was? Now you don't even know if you'll put in an appearance at church to see all the folks who are putting in their annual appearances at church. What's Easter, anyway...
Wiener eventually began to outgrow the effects of his hothouse education. He married happily and made an energetic entrance into the field of creative mathematics, the strange, unworldly specialty that he described brilliantly in I Am a Mathematician. Making his headquarters at M.I.T., he drifted from university to university, like a medieval scholar, but he remained almost a stranger in the vast world outside the classroom...
...duration he might also outgrow his paranoid delusion that there exists a secret brotherhood among architects whose cosa nostra is the clever foisting of "cheap", "disfiguring", "sleazy", "hideous", "bad", "unsightly", "unbalanced", "ugly", "monstrous", and (finally) "unattractive" buildings upon the architecturally uneducated public among whom Mr. Weil is the example par excellence. K. Paul Zygas...
...described the Negro child as born with a handicap he can never outgrow or fully accept. The child sees that his parents are frustrated and that his school "is not serious about him." When he is exposed to the ideals of democracy, he realizes that he is blocked only because of his color...
With regret, we review the Massachusetts campaign and find no reason to believe Ted Kennedy will outgrow his restrictive opportunism. A few "right votes" in the Senate will not justify the abuses he has already perpetrated. To believe that they will is, in effect, to accept Teddy's campaign as a legitimate exercise in democracy. We cannot, and thus it is with the severest pessimism that we now regard his ascendancy...