medrar

Los primeros, quienes medraban de la situación anterior y la quisieran perpetuar.	First, those who thrived in the former situation and want to see it perpetuated.
Entre ellas, lentamente, los hombres medraban en grupos pequeños como ya hemos explicado, limitados por la esterilidad planetaria.	Slowly, men thrived among those species and formed, as we have already explained, small groups that were restricted by the planetary sterility.
Entonces, como ahora, solo la izquierda y la derecha tenían posiciones de principio; los stalinistas medraban entre ambas.	As then, so now only the Rights and the Lefts had positions based on principle. The Stalinists thrived on the sops from the one and the other.
La cubría a medias una tierra árida y seca en la que medraban unas pocas palmeras de coyol, unas cuantas matas de piñuela y gran variedad de cardonas, únicas plantas que pueden crecer en yermos como ése.	It was half covered with dry and arid land on which grew a handful of palm trees, a few little bromeliads and a great variety of cactus, the only plants able to grow in such a barren land.