Word: abloom
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...agreed that we can't go home again-we've been too long in New York, more than 25 years apiece-but, God, we love it up there. We parked under the Common, and then strolled up the wide median of Comm Ave. The trees and earliest daffodils were abloom, and all was right with the world. We were the reigning world champs...
...recent outburst against vice marketing seems motivated by a larger social movement, suddenly abloom at the turn of the decade, in which citizens are demanding more socially responsible behavior from individuals and corporations alike. In a fashion, the spirit of the war on drugs has carried over to legal but abusable substances...
...daffodils were abloom in London's Hyde Park, and over at Downing Street, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put on her brightest smile for the tourists. It was, after all, nearly the end of one of Britain's bitterest winters, and she had reason to think that sunnier days might be ahead for her government. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe had just presented the House of Commons with a new budget. It shrewdly offered a little something for everyone, effectively assuaging dissidents within the Tories' own ranks and taking the steam out of expected Labor opposition...
With elections only a month away, France's bleak wintry landscape was suddenly abloom with bright billboards last week. The most striking campaign poster was one showing a sturdy tree with a caption calling for CONFIDENCE IN BARRE. The tree referred to a celebrated comparison made by Premier Raymond Barre, who had likened his efforts to boost the French economy to nurturing a tree. "Obstinately but durably, the tree grows little by little," Barre assured French voters. On the other hand, Socialism and Communism blow in like a "typhoon," wreaking havoc in the whole forest...
...South that had escaped the storms and floods was abloom with forsythia, magnolias and the ubiquitous azalea. Teetering on skateboards, the young skittered along paved river levees. The largest crowd (54,000) ever to watch a horse race in the Deep South whooped for the favorite at the Arkansas Derby in Hot Springs, and were rewarded when their choice, Clev Er Tell, won. In Round Top, Texas (pop. 64), visitors from Houston, looking for an excuse to take a short (100-mile) drive, attended the Antiques Fair and Winedale Spring Festival. They hoped to fleece the local merchants...