Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...priest; that conductors of two-price tours of Europe are expected to spend their time with the first-class guided tourists but find their girls with the second class; that suits of clothes made by tailors in tiny Italian villages are based on pictures in old American magazines, and sprout horsehair like old sofas; that the proprietresses of English teashops in Mediterranean seaports are not, as is generally believed, nymphomaniacs...
These days, starting a new big-city daily takes more money than most men have or care to risk. The mortality rate reaches perilously close to 100%, and even if the tender seedling manages somehow to sprout, it must struggle for growth in the sun-robbing shadow of sturdy old plants-well-rooted dailies that have been around long enough to become a habit. These difficulties seem particularly obvious in Phoenix, Ariz., which already has two papers-Eugene Pulliam's Republic and Gazette-and has indicated no crying need for another. Yet last week the city was alive with...
...answer, as interpreted by actors such as Paul Scofield and the late Louis Calhern, is that the seeds of madness have always lain dormant in Lear, ready at the slightest pretext to sprout. But Carnovsky has a more mordant and, in many ways, a more tragic view. Lear, he contends, is everyman; his disasters are everyman's and the tragedy in Shakespeare's eye "is not in Lear himself, but in life." When Carnovsky's Lear, reeling like a wounded animal, howls forth
Ellie, Tony tells them, "Maybe I'll sprout...
Revealing Sign. Inevitably, there have been disappointments. About 10% of the refugees still live in substandard housing, including 700 Silesian and Sudeten Germans whose flowerpots and television antennas eerily sprout from the reconverted barracks at Dachau. Many still feel that they are worse off now than they were in their old homes. Only one out of six farmers tills his own land; when he does, it is on a much smaller plot than he owned in the East...