Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a political movement became a nation-wide campaign, such as the "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom" campaign, or the "Anti-Rightist" movement, or the steel drive, even classes would go by the boards; the schools joined factories and offices and farms in round the clock activity...
...most ethereal fantasies they portray onstage. They have about them all the magic makings for a fairy-tale romance. He is 27, a moody, mysterious Tartar bristling with savage charm. She is 45, an alabaster beauty of elegant refinement. He is the glittering young prince in the first bloom of creative life. She is the dying swan in the last flutter of a shining career...
...being a great English sculptor was as remote as a Hottentot becoming prime minister of Scotland," says one British artist. Today Great Britain has become a hotbed of new sculptors, with three museum shows in London currently devoted to their renaissance. Miraculous as the new flowering appears, the sculpture bloom began in the 1930s, when British artists found the seeds for their ideas on the Continent from such sources as Brancusi, Archipenko and Picasso, repotted their findings in good English earth, and began producing a hardy native growth...
...mused Molly Tweedy Bloom in her celebrated life-affirming soliloquy, which closes James Joyce's Ulysses. Probably the most famous citizen of Gibraltar, fictional or otherwise, Molly today would find the free and easy ways and the regimental glamour of her hot-blooded youth in the 1890s to be vastly changed. On the Spanish side, in the little border towns of La Roque and La Linea, the Spanish cavalry has given way to commonplace infantry and militiamen, while on Gibraltar itself the Black Watch and the Lancers are only a memory, currently being replaced by the Middlesex Regiment...
...Gibraltarians are a hardy and tough-minded race whose blood lines stretch to every Mediterranean port from Genoa and Malta to Athens and Alexandria; many, like Molly Bloom herself, are descended from Spanish mothers and British soldier fathers. Though Spanish is the common tongue and the Gibraltarian palate approves fiery paella and wine, the citizens want no part of Spain's political system or sovereignty. Instead the elected members of the Legislative Council, led by Chief Member Sir Joshua Hassan, want full internal self-government in a free association with Britain. And they want Britain finally to take countermeasures...