Word: bloomingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conferred at length with Vice President-elect Henry A. Wallace; then the Cabinet; then with five Cabinet members, Defense Chief Knudsen, Senators Barkley, Connally, Harrison and George, Representatives Rayburn, McCormack and Bloom, Luther Johnson and Treasury Counsel Edward H. Foley Jr. Subject: new lend-lease bill to aid Britain without limit...
Rhapsodized Dr. Shear: "The public and private life of the great city over millennia of time, its history and art, its bloom and decay, in fact the whole typical course of human destiny, are revealed in the results of this excavation...
...Trotsky finished his tea and strolled through a door of his house into a grass-grown, flower-strewn patio. He wandered about, pausing now & then to enjoy that most bourgeois of bourgeois things: a garden, not for food, but for pleasure. Geraniums were sprouting from pots, roses bursting in bloom, chickens cackling in coops, rabbits copulating in warrens, birds twittering with sunset nervousness in trees that overhung the 20-foot garden wall. The trees cast flickering shadows across the patio. The sky over Mexico City was sharp, clear blue, with puffy clouds in the distance...
...Narciso Rich, like Forester's Horatio Hornblower (TIME, May i, 1939), is capable of intelligent reflection; but he is not by nature a man of action. He is, rather, a sort of Leopold Bloom light-ballasted for a more adventurous sailing pace: plump, humane, timorous, uneasily involved in thoughts which set him, in the late Middle Ages, on the borderlands of heresy and of the Renaissance. Without quite understanding why, he has committed himself, in the middle of a tabby life, to sail with Columbus on his third voyage, as guardian of the Spanish King's interests...
This year, just a whip's crack from Westbury's famed old Meadow Brook Club, another hardy sport will bloom in September. On the site of the barren Roosevelt Raceway, into which four years ago a group of Eastern sportsmen sank $1,000,000 with the hope of bringing auto racing back to the East, another group of Eastern sportsmen has just sunk $100,000 to revive harness racing...