Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither its memories of Washington nor its founders' high hopes were ever enough to make Perryopolis bloom. Its underground coal seams ran out; the coke ovens south of town were abandoned. It drowsed through the 20th century without sewers, street lights (except the one over the village square), or even a local government. But Perryopolis had something to speculate and gossip about-the odd life of Mrs. Mary Fuller Frazier, last daughter of the town's rich family...
...after five year's at Dunster, Fair concludes, "I want to achieve in the House that famed community of scholars'--some budding, some tilting, some in full bloom...
...Claire Bloom...
...will, without passport or visa. But night & day work during the Minnesota epidemic of 1946 had undermined her health. Her right side paralyzed by Parkinson's disease, Sister Kenny went back to Queensland, longing for a last look at the jacaranda trees in bloom around her home in Toowoomba. There, this week, she died, aged 66. She had lived to see her jacarandas blossom and to see her life work bearing fruit around the world...
They set up housekeeping in a single room in Forest Hills, just a 20-minute subway ride from Manhattan. It was a hand-to-mouth existence. Mrs. Bloom was ill and, because of British monetary regulations, could get little financial help from England. Claire spent her time singing "terribly sad songs," copying out poems from memory (one of her favorites: Poe's ". . . All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream . . ."), or curled up reading her red-leather volume of Shakespeare. She also went to school, but did badly in such practical subjects as arithmetic...