Word: blossom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Roman Catholic schools, all segregated, have suddenly swollen past saturation point with 7,132 students. The seven independent schools, also segregated, are doing their best business in history with 3,500 students; two new lower-grade independent schools are off to such flying starts that each will soon blossom into secondary schools. As crisis approaches, Atlanta's non-public schools are entering a golden age. For public schools, the taste is slightly coppery...
...film is downright healthy. There are no suicides, incests, miscegenations, divorces, or even race prejudices. In the end three or four recognition scenes suddenly blossom out of a fertile but rather parched story, and all is saved. Will Varner recognizes what a real chip off the old chopping block his son Jody is, when Jody tries to burn him to death; Clara, Varner's daughter, played in a vaguely disappointing way by Joanne Woodward, finds out that the guy she's loved for five years doesn't have any desire to crawl into bed with her, married or unmarried...
...last week, bright, shiny-eyed Abdel Rasik Hefny, 15, had seen his thoughtful gesture blossom amazingly. An orphan, and sole support of a younger brother, Abdel was earning 75? a day on good days. He is now a delighted student at one of suburban Cairo's finest private schools; he is aiming for a Swiss university and perhaps medical school. He is well on the way to realizing a dream that seemed fantastic last year: "To become an educated man and help my people...
...market in two years, will double their share to 20% in next two years, predicts Lewis J. Gruber, chairman of P. Lonllard Co. (Kent, Old Gold, Newport). Gruber says smokers like mint and menthol sensations, but will not embrace new tastes-pineapple, cinnamon, apple blossom...
...four feminist years, sharp-tongued girls have speared the prize at the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. It looked that way again last week at the 32nd annual spellbinder in the ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel. The girls marched past progressively tougher words, from heroine, blossom and dentifrice to operose, miscible and quadrumanous. By the end of the first day, there were six girl contestants to five boys...