Word: outgrow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic, and the political. The moral market made him a self-made man, created him in the image of Emerson's reborn man. The moral market put Nixon through the fire, in the Checkers incident, in his other crises, in the California gubernatorial election. Nixon was forced to outgrow his former self, to earn his way in the world- and earning, after all, is the American way. The sanctimonious Nixon we see today is smug because he knows that he has earned what he has, and earned it the hard way. But Wills believes that this smugness is really...
...Bradley's pioneering work was virtually ignored for almost 20 years, mainly perhaps because it seemed absurd to give stimulants to overactive children. Exactly how the drugs exert these effects is not yet clear. As they grow older-usually by the age of 15-most affected youngsters outgrow their hyperkinesis, perhaps because the brain chemistry matures with the arrival of adolescence. But it would be unwise to leave the children untreated and wait for nature to correct the problem. By adolescence, abnormal patterns of behavior would be so fixed and learning so far below average that normal development thereafter...