Word: bloomingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devotees who take snails with high seriousness. "Lying in the grass, just watching, is not sufficient," says Heaton. The complete conchophilist must know snails in their nocturnal ramblings-as they scale the Himalayas of a graveled garden walk, patiently penetrate the jungles of a zinnia border, or chew the bloom off prize winning Gloire de Dijon roses...
...other members: Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Tom Connally, Rep. Sol Bloom of New York, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Alternates: Rep. Charles Eaton of New Jersey, Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas of California, John Foster Dulles of New York City and Adlai Stevenson, Chicago lawyer who served with the U.S. delegation at U.N.'s London sessions...
...people tried their best to sing Vienna's lustige Lieder (jolly songs), but it was not easy. A current favorite revival was "In the Prater the trees bloom again," but few Viennese could sing it without remembering that their Prater amusement park was a mass of charred plaster and twisted steel...
...Cleveland Indians bloom in the spring, and look pretty on paper, but in 45 years they have won the pennant only once. Every summer Cleveland fans rise up and holler for an Indian's scalp-usually the manager's. This time they wanted to fire the owners...
After 16 days in court, the bloom was off little Fred Rose. At the start of his conspiracy trial in Montreal, Canada's only Communist member of Parliament had been jaunty. The defense sneered at documentary evidence produced by Igor Gouzenko, former Soviet Embassy cipher clerk, who named Rose as a "recruiting agent" for a Russian spy ring, as "ridiculous." But the Crown produced some 50 witnesses, 175 exhibits and about 30,000 words of testimony a day to prove that Fred Rose had, indeed, sold out his country. The jury verdict: guilty. Once jailed for sedition...