Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization warned of "a plague of locusts such as has not been seen in 100 years." Unless they can be quickly destroyed, a few billions of new locusts will sprout wings, eat up the grain and cotton of the Nile Vallev, the wheat and barley of Iran, the rice fields of Pakistan, and spread famine across one quarter of the world. While still wingless hoppers, the insects are easiest destroyed...
Many people in this country would like to see the tax-supported little red schoolhouse sprout a steeple. Most of their efforts to build such a structure have run afoul of the Constitution, but there seems to be at least one method which overcomes this obstacle. "Released Time" is its official title, and the Supreme Court declared it legal just last Monday...
...further attacks has been diminished seriously. Once you have admitted the government's right to influence your decisions on behalf of organized religion, you have little excuse for not admitting its right to pressure you on other matters, now as private as religion once was. Once schools can legally sprout steeples, then, marks distinguishing the power of other pressure groups can be expected to show up in many other spheres of private individual decision...
Myth has it that Hercules once fought an unspeakably fearsome creature named Hydra, who had the disconcerting ability to sprout two-heads for every one he lost. Old stuff, you may say, but for all its antiquity it is often reenacted even in these unheroic days...
...beans lodged in his ear. He told his mother, but he felt no pain and she could find no bean. That was four months ago. Last week Richard was vindicated. Doctors, treating him for earache, removed a sure-enough navy bean with a half-inch green sprout...