1.   When I was growing up, there were at least six daily newspapers in the house.

2.   Indeed, having grown up with the privations of autarchy, they could see the potential benefits of inclusion in the international capitalist system.

3.   He wrote love-letters for his less literate friends, as did William Lovett growing up in a fishing village at the other end of England.

4.   Believing in those optimistic predictions took huge leaps of faith when, growing up, we were confronted every day with distressingly contradictory realities.

5.   Brodeur had every right to be nervous, playing his first playoff game in his hometown and against the team that was his growing up.

6.   But naively, growing up, I never made the connection between them and Robinson, or why they were playing and the local minor-league team was not.

7.   For most of us growing up, tragedy was something that happened in faraway places.

8.   For a teenage Deborah C. Wright, growing up the eldest daughter of a black Baptist minister in the South meant a life full of givens.

9.   Growing up Methodist, I rarely heard anything of the Virgin Mary.

10.   Growing up the son of German parents in Springfield, Mass., Geisel gained an appreciation for both German and English.