Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advertise. Many writers (e.g., Bernard Shaw, William Saroyan) do much of the advertising themselves: each time their talents burst into flower they let off such chesty bugle notes of self-satisfaction that only the coldest, boldest critic dares to play deaf. But there are other good writers who bloom in silence, leaving it to the critics to sniff them out, though it may take years to place them in their proper niches...
Then, breaking all the cinematic rules of cowboy-Indian warfare, Stewart and Cochise nurse a precarious understanding between the whites and the Apaches. They even fight renegades on both sides to make it bloom into a tribal treaty with the U.S. Government...
...Here, There and Everywhere, a volume of essays on slang and cant, Author Partridge subscribes to the theory that English cant had its first big bloom in the Reformation, when dispossessed English priests joined up with thieves and highwaymen and taught them scraps of Latin. By 1630, "Thieves' Latin" had all but passed away, to be replaced by the cant which fathered U.S. gangster and hobo language-a rich mulligan of native ingredients peppered lightly with foreign words, e.g., booze from the Middle Dutch bus en (to tipple), stir from the gypsy stariben (a prison...
...Poet Smart had been confined in an asylum just before A Song to David was first published - which prompted Browning to the romantic conclusion that Smart had been no better than a hack while, he had his wits; that when he lost them his dormant genius had burst into bloom...
This June, the bloom also has some of the surface aspects of a boom. One after another, each campus has announced the total of gifts and bequests received during the year, and the figures are impressive. Harvard has received another $16 million; Yale, another $6,500,000; Princeton, more than $3,000,000; CalTech, $1,926,000. Among the smaller colleges, Bowdoin has $1,918,275; Emory University, almost $2,000,000; Smith college...