Word: blossom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From Flying Petty Officer First Class Isao Matsuo to his parents: "Please congratulate me. I have been given a splendid opportunity to die . . . I shall fall like a blossom from a radiant cherry tree . . . How I appreciate this chance to die like a man! . . . Thank you, my parents, for the 23 years during which you have cared for me and inspired me. I hope that my present deed will in some small way repay what you have done...
...blossom today, then scattered...
...were tired of being Governor Orval Faubus' whipping boys. He had used us to win or help win three elections. Our integration plan would have worked if it hadn't been for political interference." Out along with the rest of the board: School Superintendent Virgil T. Blossom. Before quitting, the board voted over Alford's objection to dismiss Blossom, pay him $19,741.41 for the remaining 19 months of his contract. But by week's end the segregationist machinery had produced a taxpayer's suit charging collusion, postponed payment...
Shifting IQs. Periodic intelligence testing gave parents of dull children the hope that their dimwitted offspring would blossom late; and tests taken throughout life ensured that when IQ went up-or down -jobs changed accordingly. Mere age, of course, commands no respect in a meritocracy; as IQ dips in the fifth or sixth decade of life, Young writes, "the managing director had to become an office mechanic . . . the professor an assistant in the library. There have been judges who have become taxi drivers, bishops curates, and publishers writers...
Advertisements like these will probably not blossom forth in Soviet publications, but Russia is about to travel halfway to Manhattan's Madison Avenue. Sovetskaya Kultura, the official publication of the Ministry of Culture, last week complained that Russians are stupefied and bored by such headlines as "Buy jewelry in the shops of the State Jewelry Trade Organization" and "State Insurance is selling insurance for household goods." To get American-style hard sell, the Ministry of Culture called for "creative, talented people" to staff the new "Advertising-Publishing office" set up to improve shop-window displays, advertising signs and billboards...