Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference did not get to Len's resolution last year. But it caught the eye of General Secretary Morgan Phillips, a stocky ex-miner from Wales, one of Labor's shrewdest political brains and a politico who can sniff a budding political bloom a year off. Had not the Conservatives profited by Churchill's appeal for one more "parley at the summit"? Phillips dispatched a letter to Peking. Months later, at Geneva, China's Chou En-lai gave a benevolent go-ahead...
Sabrina. The boss's sons (Humphrey Bogart, William Holden) and the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) are at it again, but thanks to Director Billy Wilder, not all the bloom is off this faded comic ruse (TIME, Sept...
When I saw those flowers all in bloom...
...French found North Africa largely desert, and in places they have made it bloom. The million and a half Frenchmen who now live there regard it as their only home. Equally important, France's African empire, all of which might fall if strategic North Africa is lost, is the last remaining assurance that France is a great power. "Without it," Frenchmen argue with incontestable pessimism, "France will have no place in the 21st century. We shall be 40 million Frenchmen against nearly twice as many Germans. We shall become another Portugal...
Only a fortnight ago, Ike had been pleased with the progress his program was making in Congress, and had a word for its prospects: rosy. Last week the bloom was clearly off the rose, and Dwight Eisenhower was uncommonly vigorous in scolding Congress...