Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast, the Riviera female is in the throes of full, Amazonian development. Her brightly painted toes flicker through the nimble measures of the Charleston; her wrists grow strong beneath the weight of jangling bracelets; her long thighs are shaped to glued-on toreador slacks. She carries blithely a large basket laden with spare sets of false eyelashes, spare bandannas, waterproof mascara, lipstick brushes, eyelid pencils, bobby pins, suntan oils, combs, tweezers, compacts, cigarettes, stray hairs left by the cat. Atop her head is a brimmed straw-hat pulled over a voile scarf tied babushka-style, and she turns...
...would be an excellent time for the people of America to grow up to the facts of international politics. International relations are not a game of good cowboys against bad cowboys; very little can be gained by an attitude of righteous indignation that the top boss of Communism be allowed to visit the United States as an honored guest. War is the common enemy of the whole world; clear-cut understanding and removal of prejudices and fatal illusions of superiority from both sides are our weapons...
...Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the stage (The Guardsman, 1924); of a heart attack"; in Norwalk, Conn. The Theatre Guild never recaptured its glories of the '205 but achieved some later notable successes. It was Theresa Helburn who sent the script of Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs to Composer Richard Rodgers and suggested it might make a' good musical. Result: Oklahoma...
...Imitation of Christ; he believed that "only through force may good be attained." But he also despised militarism, gave the country a uniform currency, the first highway between mountainous Quito and seaside Guayaquil, established an efficient treasury, schools, an observatory, and provided stability so that the country could grow. Yet Garcia ruled that non-Catholics might not be citizens, subordinated the state to the church, in 1873 solemnly dedicated Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A leather worker hacked him to death in 1875. For the next 20 years Ecuador floundered through civil war, brigandage and six more dictators...
From the eye sockets of trachoma victims, investigators had no trouble getting secretions in which they found what seemed to be a large virus. The trick was to grow it uncontaminated in the laboratory, then use it to transmit the disease. It refused to grow, or grew for a few days and vanished. A major obstacle: the disease is hard to diagnose except in man. Still, some human subjects got the disease in experiments that dishearteningly failed to convict the virus as the cause...