Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CYNTHIA BLOOM: PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS at the NOVA GALLERY starting Tuesday until...
...summer. Ever since, passing tourists and fellow fanciers have been hastening to reassure him that he was right as rain. Something of a momentous nature has indeed happened to British women. Softly, silently, in the beneficent climate of Britain's postwar affluence, they have burst forth into startling bloom. The transformation should end, hopefully forever, the long winter of discontent when British women stood armored in well-tailored tweeds and wool stockings, their feet sensibly shod against all weather. Only touch of blight: the slowness of British males to notice the change. Snapped one young belle...
MAURICE J. BLOOM The Bronx...
...Oberammergau Passion Play), stamp collectors (London's International Exhibition in July), golfers (following the tournaments and playing the best courses in the British Isles). For James Joyce fans, it is even possible to be conducted on a lurch through Dublin in the steps of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, taking two hours or two days, depending on how many "balls of malt" (Irish whisky) are downed en route. Touring cost for two: $6 in a horse-drawn Dublin cab. For $2.50 from West Berlin there is a guaranteed-safe-return tour, including bleak Communist East Berlin...
...wanted marigolds. There was one big problem: they all smelled bad. One day he received a letter from a missionary offering him for $25 an ounce Tibetan marigold seeds that did not smell. Burpee accepted, found the plants had no smell, but unfortunately had runty blossoms, only one good bloom. Realizing that the good bloom was a mutation, he put his employees to work at the Floradale Farms sniffing at 554,000 growing marigold plants, looking for other mutations. One student found a whole row of odorless plants. Burpee has continued to develop his favorite flower, which this year passed...