Word: blossom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upturn was what put Washington in a cherry-blossom mood. "I thought the figures would be good," said Assistant Commerce Secretary William Shaw. "I just didn't expect them to be that good." Even April sales of autos showed a sharp increase for the first ten days of this month. Chrysler reported a 25% rise, struggling American Motors had an 8% gain, and General Motors improved sales by 5%. Only Ford was still off with a 9% decline from last year. "People," said Pontiac General Sales Manager Thomas L. King, "walk into showrooms now in a buying rather than...
...boards some 40 years ago in Pekin, Ill., after he had starred in and married the leading lady of a local theatrical. In Pekin, he also co-authored and directed a two-act comedy called Chinese Love, which tells of Sing Loo's pursuit of the blossom of his eye, Pan Toy. Sample dialogue: Sing Loo: Do you know what the lover expects from his love in that golden moment when they are betrothed? Pan Toy: I do not know. Sing Loo: Shall I show you? Pan Toy: Is it dangerous...
...career continued to blossom. "I thought I was the luckiest girl alive," she says. "I did not know it was bad for a young girl to be singing in a sophisticated revue." But Tony remembers that her diary in those days "was filled with fanciful images of what a beautiful, happy family life she had and what a glamorous existence she led, when in reality it was plenty seedy...
South Viet Nam's constitutional assembly campaign was in full swing last week amid a blaze of huge red and yellow Vietnamese flags and a blare of sound trucks. Up and down the narrow nation, posters blossomed bearing the arcane symbols of the candidates' slates: the Lamp, the Lotus Blossom, the Cock & Hand, the Woman with a Basket. Declared banners and placards in Sai gon: TO VOTE IS TO BEGIN BUILDING DEMOCRACY...
...inclination Stannard is a dreamer. His antic imagination has conjured up an oddball universe where time actually runs backward. There, reports Stannard in Nature, a swimmer would rise from the water to land on a diving board, a decaying apple would gradually turn unripe and then into a blossom, all life would proceed from tomb to womb...