Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gulf Coast of Florida from St. Petersburg to the Marco Island area was visited by a "red tide," a massive bloom of microorganisms (Gymnodinium brevis). They stained the sea water rusty brown and killed thousands of fish, which then washed up on the beaches to rot. Workers cleaning the beaches around St. Petersburg could hardly keep up with the harvest of dead fish putrefying in the summer sun. It was the worst occurrence since an eleven-month siege in 1946-47 destroyed an estimated 100 million pounds of fish...
...country. Three drifters-Collings (Fonda), Harris (Warren Gates) and Dan (Robert Pratt)-drift into it. Dan is gunned down by a mean, sneaky killer named McVey (Severn Darden). Collings and Harris push on to the farm of the wife Collings had deserted six years before. The wife, Hannah (Verna Bloom), takes on the pair as hired hands...
...unpregnant pauses, and Fonda delivers it that way. He possesses the bruised canine look of his father with its perpetual hint of being over-loyal and underloved. Gates is good at suggesting a beat-up, used-up man who has not turned bitter. The untainted honesty of Verna Bloom's performance gives it the effect of beauty. She has an authentic frontier woman's face, planed by the seasons and by loneliness At one point, she says, "I'm all aching and sore from these last six years " After only 90 minutes spent at The Hired Hand...
Three Fronts. The Panthers have helped spark a long-overdue debate in Israel on the problems that bloom with peace. It was Police Minister Hillel, the Iraqi Jew who made good, who defined the danger most clearly. In Tel Aviv recently, he told a Labor Party rally: "Israel is faced with a struggle on three equally important fronts-security, economic and social. It cannot afford to lose any one of them...
...conference was scheduled for 6 p.m., but the hour came and went and nothing happened. Some reporters wandered about the palace while others went out into the beautiful Elysée garden, which was covered with rich green umbrellas of chestnut trees in the final dazzle of bloom. A light, misty rain coated the grass and clung to the dark blue jackets of the Garde Républicaine. At 6:30, loudspeakers crackled that the two men would appear at 7. British journalists began to fret about some unexpected "difficulty." A French correspondent grumbled: "The general was always on time...