Word: sprouting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin at the beginning," said Chris Tara, Yale's first speaker. "God said 'Let the earth sprout grass' and he saw that it was good...
...Ford is amused by the tortoise-shell wastebasket that hangs from an armchair used by Grant. She is intrigued by two sewing tables from 1810 made by Duncan Phyfe. Small and elegant when closed, they sprout drawers and shelves like magic...
...Trotche, families of ten and twelve members crowd into the dingy, single-room, windowless jacales. Those lucky enough to have beds sleep three or four together. Otherwise, they lie on the dirt floor. TV antennas sprout from some of the huts, but electricity is the only city service they receive. Water must be carried from a single outlet in El Trotche. The nearby undergrowth serves as a toilet. Garbage is dumped out the front door for the pigs...
This kind of wonderfulness rolls on and on, these granite slabs shifting and heaving and finally buckling under--for Father, who is broken on the rocks, though others have hopes that fight up and sprout through cracks. Characters dash off onto the ice floes of history--with the stirred-up sureness of manifest destiny or the desperation of an immigrant's flight, of a striker's decision to strike--and whether they come back or float away depends on their understanding of the terrain.J.P.Morgan understands it, or at least keeps himself so entombed in greatness that he can afford...
...made the decision alone. "Nobody brainwashed him; nobody forced him into it. Certainly peer pressure had nothing to do with it." So up in his hollow Dan Sizemore read books, decided he was against the profit system, and prepared to keep his belt on when his kids began to sprout their locks. Fifteen years later the neighbors still hate the guy, and especially when they see out-of-state license plates (the people who bring him Philip Roth books?) flash by on the way up to his house. Who knows what goes on up there? A man in the shack...