Word: sproute
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...year-old sprout was dragged from his sleep on a cold cell floor to be prodded with the endless question: "Were you a member of a counterrevolutionary, Fascist, terroristic organization?" After nights of browbeating, the bewildered lad "confessed." The zealous agents then attempted to get him to confess that he had started recruiting for such an organization in 1935 (when he was seven years...
...year-old woman consulted Dr. Groves because she had broken the top of her thighbone a year before and it had not united. To nail the knob back on the patient's thighbone, Dr. Groves needed a solid, rodlike bone. He remembered that stags' antlers, which sprout afresh every year, are homogeneous, have no marrow cavity. So he ordered a branch of antlers, carved a bone peg three inches long, three-eighths of an inch wide, and nailed the head back onto her long thighbone. "A year later [the patient] could walk so well that it was impossible...
...room on his plot for big symphonic and operatic hedgerows and shade trees. For this situation his biographer blames not Grieg but the character of the national soil. Norway's folk idioms were wild flowers, not acorns, and even the ablest husbandman could not make them sprout into oaks...
...head is divided by a longitudinal cut toward the tail, each part will become a complete new head, making a two-headed monster. If part of a flatworm's head is removed and grafted to a wound in another flatworm's body, a new head will indomitably sprout from the wound...
...iris, hyacinth, crocus and daffodil bulbs worth some $5,000,000 which the Dutch annually export to the U. S. This week the cordial trade relations between The Netherlands and the U. S. blossomed with the announcement that a vacant lot in Manhattan's Radio City will soon sprout a Netherlands Building...