Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upbraiding the Kennedy Administration for claiming to have halted the recession, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating dryly told his colleagues: "In the same category, I praise the President for having the sun shine and the flowers bloom and the spring season emerge upon us." Vermont Republican George Aiken leaped to his feet, protested: "The Senator gives the President altogether too much credit. The spring season did not emerge in time." Agreed Keating: "It is a little late...
...Common Touch. As pints were raised in pubs and Welsh mums wiped away a happy tear, the man of the hour was Tony Armstrong-Jones, the onetime bohemian and free-lancing photographer, who until only recently has had his critics. Once the bloom was off the groom, Britain's royalty-revering public made it plain that it was watching ex-Playboy Tony with a tolerant but suspicious eye, intent on making sure he did right by their Meg. Trouble was, there was little publicly that he could do. Royal protocol made working for a living unthinkable, and Tony...
...time, and you have to respect it. I think Mr. Joyce was an excellent screenplay writer. I've been going over and over the book to see what the camera can do. There's Stephen the artist, searching for someone to replace his drunken father, and Mr. Bloom, searching for the son he's lost. Ulysses is essentially an adventure story. The characters have to do with the perennial struggle between all men because of their desire to compete...
...been crowded with free-spending French soldiers. The parking lot at the University of Algiers looked like the showroom of a sports-car dealer, and new apartment blocks were rising fast in well-to-do Hydra, a hilltop suburb of Algiers overlooking the sea. Adding to Algeria's bloom has been the discovery of oil in the Sahara...
...deprecate the success of Russia's man-carrying spaceship, President Kennedy got lost in an old scientific daydream. Cheap fresh water extracted from salt water, he said, would benefit humanity enough to dwarf any other scientific accomplishment. This hope, that desalted sea water may make the deserts bloom as the rose, has long been popular. It has stirred speculative flurries on the stock exchanges; it can almost always get money out of Congress. Five big pilot desalting plants backed with federal money are now scheduled or already under construction. But the experts who came to the National Watershed Conference...