Word: bloom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tank of gas just to keep his cab warm, while he waited for assistance. Five schoolboys out on an endurance test were rescued after two nights on storm-swept Dartmoor; a medium had told police where to look. Horse racing, cricket and soccer games were canceled, and the bloom totally vanished from the Harrogate spring flower show...
...crackdown than an attempt by the party leadership to prevent liberalization from getting out of control while it determines the exact place Mao should have in history. Said one Western diplomat in Peking, paraphrasing the late Chairman: "This government may still believe that they should let a hundred flowers bloom, but they don't feel they want one hundred...
...Barbara Bloom...
...indeed ideal guerrilla country: dense scrub and jungle interspersed with small farms, low stone walls everywhere. The coffee trees are in bloom, but most of the farms are deserted. The soldiers had prepared for combat that morning by cleaning all their weapons. The officers, who have few privileges, saw to their own. Most carried the West German-made G3 automatic rifle. Young Lieut. Eliu knelt down with his squad and uttered his own simple prebattle invocation: "God, look after us and make us act with justice and rectitude and not be driven by our emotions...
...against 15 companies after they agreed to make cash payments totaling $550 million to consumers and the Government. But many of the biggest firms, including Exxon, Texaco and Mobil, refused to settle. In view of the new President's budget proposals, they may have been wise. Says Paul Bloom, who headed Carter's oil-price investigation: "These cutbacks would constitute a death blow to any credible effort to pursue prosecutions against major refiners...