Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private school near San Francisco, has taken his wife and four children to the Sierras, five hours away, every winter for the past six years. As usual, the preparations began in October, when the Richardsons attended a "ski swap" and exchanged with others the gear that the children had outgrown. The Richardsons had been setting money aside every month since last spring for the vacation, cutting corners wherever they could. Wife Betsy made casseroles and froze them so the family could dine cheaply at its rented ski house. Says Bill Richardson of the trip: "It's costly but worth...
Over the past year some things have changed. The Phoenix is defunct; the James Montgomery Blues Band, though still unrecorded, has set its sights on making it big, with recording imminent. In pursuit of fame, they have ranged far from Boston and have outgrown the purely local following so notably cultivated over the last year and a half. Lake the J. Geils Band, they hope for a national reputation, national media-oriented identifies as musicians, and national-sized dough stardom, the height of professional success, the logical ambitious step for a band who proved unequivocally to Boston audiences what...
French President Georges Pompidou last week learned to his embarrassment that Europe has outgrown the era of Charles de Gaulle. Frustrated by the "unrealistic dreams" of his fellow Europeans-that is, their desire to tiptoe toward supranationalism by strengthening existing Common Market institutions-Pompidou fell back on De Gaulle's favorite tactic of obstruction. He threatened to postpone the first summit of the expanded ten-nation EEC scheduled for Oct. 19-20 in Paris. Not long ago the threat would have sent neighboring statesmen scurrying for a compromise, but the general reaction from most West European capitals last week...
...national waste! Thousands of qualified potential doctors who were never educated, thousands of potential lawyers who were never admitted to the bar, thousands of excellent teachers who never got Ph.D.s, and saddest of all, thousands of women who have been kept in jobs which they have outgrown and whose wisdom and gifts have never been utilized...
...mythologists are not providing myths, but they are indicating that something is missing without them. They are telling modern man that he has not outgrown mythology and will never outgrow it so long as he has hopes and fears beyond the other animals...