Word: grewing
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After that we grew quite close, drawn together by a common mode of conversation, the same general appreciation of comic nonsense (though sometimes he would issue a cold, dry laugh at something that seemed absolutely sensible to me), and by some unspoken sense of sadness. We circumvented the subject of politics whenever possible. He was appalled by my liberalism; I was enraged by his approval of Nixon and the Vietnam...
...some horses, Jim looks out at unfamiliar farmhouses and thinks, "People live here. They don't know who I am." Uncle Al makes a side trip to Myrtle Beach so that Jim can get his first look at the Atlantic: "He wished that just for a moment, until he grew used to the sight, the ocean would simply hold still. But the waves lined up and bore down on the wide, white beach like a gang of boys intent on jumping a gully...
...last letter I received from my husband, 1st Lieut. Dean B. Allen, who served in the Army infantry, was one of those you featured. Unfortunately, the caption with his photo gave the wrong hometown for Dean. It was I who was from Voorheesville, N.Y.; Dean grew up in Delmar, N.Y. I'm sure the people in Delmar would appreciate having it identified as the hometown of one of their own who paid the ultimate price in the service of his country. JOYCE A. HALLENBECK Columbia...
With my younger son humoring me because it was Father's Day, I ventured into a store that sells running shoes. Now, I grew up in a plain Keds generation: choice between white or dark blue. I considered the blue to be pretty unorthodox. So it was in white Keds as a boy that I played tennis, yachted and stole hubcaps...
...grew up listening to a lot of hip-hop and electronic music," says Benning. Her interests meshed with the girl-punk sensibilities of Kathleen Hanna, former singer of Bikini Kill, and the 'zine writer Johanna Fateman, with whom she formed the rock group Le Tigre last year. Their February word-of-mouth-only debut in Brooklyn packed a huge loft with so many insiders that a crowd stood listening in the snow outside. "We pretty much rotate instruments," says Benning, who assembles many of Le Tigre's beats on samplers and '80s-vintage drum machines. After its tour, the band...