Word: outgrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixteen months later, they were divorced. "We were babies, just children," says Ava. "Our lives were run by a lot of other people. We didn't have a chance." A veteran Hollywood gossipist sees it differently: "Ava simply outgrew Mickey...
...Crown Colony of Hong Kong was founded in 1841 as a base for Britain's opium trade with China. It outgrew its sinister origin, to become an outpost of British comfort, respectability and sound business methods. The British merchant princes who owned Hong Kong tended their beautiful, peaked island as carefully as a well-hedged Surrey garden, determinedly insulating it from the turbulent realities of Asia...
...story told by Biographer Derek Hudson is a tragic one. Tupper had his success young. In the '60s the public outgrew him, and he became a figure of fun. As people began to snicker, other disasters struck him too. He lost his savings in speculations. His publishers went bankrupt and failed to pay him. His wife became an alcoholic and was out of her head for a time. His eldest son ran hugely into debt, was kicked out of the army, and almost broke Tupper's heart when he was found suffering from delirium tremens in a prostitute...