Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Press Laughed. Committee members began to question him. What was the difference, New York's orotund Sol Bloom wanted to know, between the Wallace line and the Communist line on ERP? Replied Henry stiffly: "I am not familiar with the Communist approach. I am not prepared to discuss it. I don't know what the Communist objection is. I don't follow the Communist literature." South Dakota's Karl Mundt asked him if he thought Russia was meddling in European affairs. No one could say for sure, Wallace replied, because it was "impossible...
...Britain's fields, like the others, were pungent with the smell of freshly plowed earth. In Kew Gardens photographers snapped pictures of rhododendrons in bloom five weeks before their time. Here & there, jokers were at work. Enthusiastic residents of Scarborough, in a frenzy of excitement over the notes of the first cuckoo, were crestfallen to discover that the trills of good cheer actually came from a toothless street cleaner named Hezekiah Johnson. "I wait until a crowd gathers," admitted Johnson. "Then I go into a nearby park and cuckoo. They all take it in. I used...
...bushy tree . . . with a short and usually crooked trunk . . . stout spreading rigid branches beset with slender spine-like branchlets, bright red and glabrous when they first appear, soon turning green, and in their first winter grey tinged with red, covered with a slight bloom . . . and ultimately dark brown tinged with...
...formal setting of the novel is one community and the time one day. The community is the small town of Waycross, Indiana, and the date July 4, 1892. The hero, John Wickliff Shawnessy, is both family man and poet, combining the two archetypal characters that Joyce separated in Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Mr. Shawnessy, 53, schoolteacher and county scholar, moves through the day as a leading citizen in the local celebrations. At intervals the day's events or reflections, like firecrackers, touch off flashbacks to the significant events of Mr. Shawnessy's life...
President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers, issuing its second annual report, took some of the bloom off this rosy figure. In a rambling, 31-page document that gave no help in charting the U.S. economic course, the council vaguely wondered: "[Will] full production, in catching up with market demand, force disastrous price breaks, result in production cutbacks, and thus prove to be its own undoing...