Word: bloomerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which was 12 billion years ago, the new galaxy was forming sun-size stars at the rate of about 3,000 to 5,000 a year. But it still consisted largely of ionized hydrogen gas that & would eventually condense into billions of additional stars. It was a late bloomer, Spinrad says, because astronomers think most galaxies formed 14 billion years...
...consider myself a late bloomer," Chiarelli says...
Orel Hershiser, a late bloomer mislaid for five years in the Dodger farm system, considers Gooden's primary talent "just the fact of how natural he can make himself feel in a stadium full of people. I've watched him, and I don't know whether he's any more natural when he's alone. The days I make it look easy when it wasn't easy are my proudest. But for him, I think it is easy. I just think he knows what he wants to be. If you don't know what you want to be, people...
...commanding officer of Challenger was a late bloomer. Born in the rural Washington town of Cle Elum (an Indian name meaning swift water), the son of a railroad engineer, Francis R. ("Dick") Scobee began his flying career unglamorously, as an 18-year-old enlisted Air Force mechanic. By attending night school and enrolling in service education programs, he eventually won a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Arizona that helped him qualify to become an officer and a pilot...
...Horacian swipes on Catholic dogma revolve around the childhood romance of two well-intentioned social misfits. Eddie (Russ Thacker), a self-professed late bloomer, struggles to reconcile his "sinful" impulses with the rigid doctrine he confronts in school. Becky (Blackman), an overweight outcast taunted by her classmates, stumebles through her formative years asking Cod why she has been singled out. The two meet as youngsters in elementary school, and what blossoms is a classic (if admittedly mushy) romance spanning more than a decade of Catholic schooling...