"You called it," Bird Dog said, as the contact grew larger.

Traditions are already eroding, particularly among the young, as contacts with white society grow.

On the one hand, economic and cultural contacts across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait are growing rapidly.

As his business grew, he enlarged his contacts in politics.

As contact with foreigners grows, they believe, there could be greater pressure for change.

As a result, the Berlin Wall first cracked open in 1972, and contacts have grown ever since.

They supplied him with stories of their internships and from there the contacts grew.

By the 1980s, as China's contacts with the outside world grew, party and government leaders at all levels increasingly were involved in foreign affairs.

Over the past two or three months, his contacts with America had grown slightly cold.

But the contact grew ever more insistent, and finally she gave in.