Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cruelties, remembering the scrupulously fair treatment given to Jap prisoners, the U.S. people veritably groaned for revenge. Kentucky's Representative Andrew J. May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, called on the entire Fleet to steam into Tokyo harbor and blow the city to bits. Cried Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "We'll hold the rats responsible - from the Emperor down to the lowest ditchdigger - for a million years...
...asking his many friends to bring him one board each. They brought enough for a stage. The inmates have plenty of uniforms to broadcast in: white shirts and orange-striped trousers for the glee club; dark trousers, cream-colored tuxedo jackets, and boutonnieres (when the prison garden is in bloom) for the orchestra...
Half hour later, Britain's busy Mosquitoes stung Frankfurt again, demoralized its weary firefighters. That pattern, by night and by day, will flower into bloody bloom in many another German city before spring...
...disease was on the march. In famine-weakened Bengal malaria was taking a death toll comparable to the famine's fabulous 40,000 a week of early November. Cholera, dysentery and dropsy were also in murderous full bloom...
Patrice is as choice a bloom as any in the recent bevy of young sopranos. Only child of a Spokane, Wash., dentist, Patrice made her first splash six years ago when she sang before the Spokane Citizens' Club. Before she was 14 she had become a ballet and tap dancer, and an expert in what she calls "artistic whistling." For the past three years she has lived in Manhattan with her mother, who holds her to a strict daily routine: 10:30 to noon, voice lesson; 1 to 3, operatic coaching; 3 to 4, Italian lesson...