Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes an old proverb often quoted by David Burpee, 67, president and proprietor of the W. Atlee Burpee Co., the world's largest mail-order seed house. To spread the joys of gardening, Burpee each year mails out 4,000,000 copies of his catalogues, which bloom with richly flowered prose, amaze with promises of something "never before seen in asters," and unfold the mysteries of celtuce (a celery-lettuce combination) and midget watermelon...
...Love and In the Time of Greenbloom, Author Fielding dealt with the family background of John Blaydon, a British schoolboy, and carried him through an adolescent love affair. When the girl was brutally raped and murdered by a wandering psychopath, John's sanity was saved by Horab Green-bloom, a Jewish intellectual who is for ever on the move - mentally, physically, metaphysically. But not even Greenbloom is able to prepare young John for Ireland...
Eighteen months ago, when the Mizo Hills burst into spectral bloom, the frightened tribesmen-70% of whom are Christians, mostly Baptist converts-frantically appealed to the Assam state government for help. When the bamboo last bloomed, in 1910-11, and before that in 1860-62, they said, the rats came. Assam's bureaucrats dismissed such prophecies as superstition. But the prophecies have come true: thousands of rats have left the jungle, attacked the clearings, and stripped everything bare. Too late, the state government sent in rat poison; what was not "lost in transit" fell into the hands of profiteers...
Born. To Claire Bloom, 28, brunette British beauty of stage (Rashomon) and screen (Richard III); and Rod Steiger, 34, Methodical bad man of stage and screen (Cry Terror): their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight...
Ever since Mao Tse-tung let the "100 flowers bloom and contend" and then rooted them out, the voice of dissent has been hard to hear in Red China. But it was plainly to be seen last week in the pages of New Construction, a nonparty theoretical monthly permitted occasionally to deviate slightly from the party line. The critic was ancient and prestigious Ma Yinchu, president of Peking University. "More than 200 people have criticized my views, and I hear more are entering the battle," wrote Ma defiantly. "I accept the challenge, and even though I am nearly 80 years...