Word: sprouting
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...perhaps I am out of date and in the past 50 years the Eton jacket has sprouted a tail. The latter seems improbable. Things do not sprout so quickly as this in England...
With these words the Administration last week offered veterans a new bonus of a round half-billion dollars provided they would desist, at least for a time, from hounding the Government for cash. The offer appeared to sprout out of a White House heart-to-heart between President Roosevelt and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi early in the week...
...first discoveries, of incalculable value to farmers, was that seeds sprout most quickly if kept cold (41°) and dry between harvest and planting. Others followed in slow but steady succession. Some kinds of apples with green-colored skins may be just as ripe and tasty as red apples but suffer in market competition because buyers like the appearance of red apples. It was learned that 48 hours of ultraviolet radiation turns green-colored apples a beautiful, even, overall shade...
...ought to sprout wings," piped a friend...
...occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie as his stock-in-trade. A brisk light-hearted and enormously romantic tableau, The Scarlet Pimpernel should sprout immediately on lists of worthy cinemas compiled out of respect for decency or for plain good taste. Good shot: Sir Percy ingratiating himself with a sentry at the gates of Paris by showing him a switch made of dead patricians' pigtails...