Word: outgrow
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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...
...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...
...setting up campaign schools and importing officials from the national headquarters to lecture. Says he: "We're getting away from the post-office and patronage crowd. There were a lot of Republicans in the South who didn't want the party to grow because it might outgrow them." Under Chapman, South Carolina Republicans are running their first major candidate for the Senate since Reconstruction: William D. Workman Jr., 47, a widely known, highly respected syndicated columnist and pro-segregationist author (Case for the South), who is seeking Democrat Olin Johnston's seat...