Word: abloom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Third Reich, Adolf Hitler promised, would last a thousand years. Those who deal in historical ironies have long enjoyed pointing out that it lasted only twelve. Or did it? Once again, a spate of new books on Hitler and his era are setting bookstore shelves abloom with the inevitable swastikas and Chaplinesque mustaches. The 1,000-book Reich-recollected in tranquillity-must surely be near at hand...
With the arrival of spring's best weather in much of the nation, campus unrest was abloom almost everywhere, from Caltech, which had known almost no demonstrations, to the University of Maryland, where police and National Guardsmen waged pitched battles with protesters. Early in the week the issues included almost any notion that radicals could use to challenge administrations or to try to provoke a confrontation. There were demonstrations seeking more black students, protests against ROTC, fights for greater student influence over university policy. But after the President announced the dispatch of U.S. troops into Cambodia, the overriding issue...