Word: blossomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. -Isaiah...
Since winning its independence in 1948, the State of Israel has struggled to make its desertlike land blossom. But it has not been able to attract enough money from foreign investors, has had to rely largely on contributions by such philanthropic organizations as the United Jewish Appeal, to support its fast-growing population...
...piracy seemed perfectly typical of human nature. More recently, Britain's Lord Dunsany declared that the "adventure of the Crusades [was] the wisest policy that European statesmen ever formulated," because it cleared all the gangsters out of Europe and gave "the arts of peace ... a chance to blossom...
...announced that patent No. 2,540,144 had been granted to Engineer-Inventor Emery Stern for a device which will "automatically release" various scents from containers built into TV sets. Set off by electrical impulses, the odors are intended to be appropriate to the type of program, e.g., peach blossom for romance...
...Yellow Book was a queer literary blossom of the not-so-Naughty Nineties. Stuffy contemporaries thought it a stinkweed, but today it seems more like a pressed rose-flat and sere. A British quarterly launched by Critic Henry Harland and Draftsman Aubrey Beardsley, it ran from 1894 to 1897, published the trial flights of half a dozen future soarers...