Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder of Britain is a youthful appliance maker who has convinced British housewives that his product is a knight in shining armor, ready to rescue them from drudgery-on the installment plan. "All women in England want carefree kitchens as near to the Americans' as possible," says John Bloom, 29-and he has got rich quick by giving them what they want. In just three years Bloom has captured 12% of Britain's washing-machine market by borrowing U.S. mass production methods, of showing a fine disregard for conservative British business habits and a finer knack for underselling...
...must first pass a literacy test and prove they have paid an annual tax of at least $7. Few can meet these requirements. But they will obtain, for the first time, the rights to judicial trial and the full protection of the law. The government removed some of the bloom from this offer by adding that Angola and the other African territories will receive greatly increased immigration from Portugal, including "the young men now doing their military service there." In short, the Portuguese solution to the colonial problem is more colonization...
Artificial flowers for allergic actresses are only one use of the U.S.'s flowering bogus-blossom bloom. Imports from Italy and Hong Kong, which manufacture the bulk of the world's fake-flower output, have jumped more than 20 times since 1955. It is now a $50 million-a-year business. Of poor quality in the past, imitation lilacs, rhododendrons, geraniums, magnolias and orchids now look real enough to water-though lilies sometimes come with geranium leaves. Explains one Hong Kong exporter: "Sometimes God's product doesn't look natural enough, so we make hybrids." Some...
Romance, in high-fashion terminology, means marabou feathers and encrusted chiffon, sumptuous embroidery and lacy swansdown, and involves moonlight only as an adjective for blue and roses only if they bloom on fabrics instead of bushes. Fur and crocheted collars are conspicuous, as are capes: Eleanora Garnett smocks them for daytime, Fontana cuts them in satin and velvet for evening, Faraoni makes sleeves of them for narrow dresses. Romantic, richly worked evening gowns slink to floor length, Gattinoni's narrow satin gowns come with heavily beaded apron fronts, and Top Designer Micol Fontana offers a blue velvet ball gown...
...first term, Ma released 3,600 prisoners (mostly bootleggers), attempted to put a 10% tax on cigarettes (she and Farmer Jim both disapproved of smoking). Running the state economically, she improved Texas' financial situation from a deficit to a $7,000,000 surplus. Even so, the bloom faded quickly from her popularity, largely because of the long shadow of Farmer Jim, and in the next Democratic primary Ma was overwhelmed by her attorney general, Dan Moody, who ungallantly campaigned with a "Clear out the Fergusons" battle...