Word: blossomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...departments and agencies of the U.S. Government, spring comes in the fall. Late each September, bureaucratic thoughts lightly turn to next year's legislation, programs blossom, and hope springs eternal. Throughout October and well into November, the departments nurture their plans in hothouses. Then comes time for approval by the Budget Bureau and the White House-and the petals begin to fall. The final pruning, or fatal plucking, is up to Congress...
...character of her paramour (played, in the film, by Melvyn Douglas); poor Ninotchka, it appears, has been kept on to provide an excuse for calling Silk Stockings an "adaptation." And her ton is just a hell of a lot different from everybody else's ton--she is a pale blossom in a jungle of burly...
...prize roles were played by members of the Tactical Patrol Force, who did their burly best to look like women. They shaved their legs, wiggled into tangerine Capri pants, padded themselves with balloons, pulled on curly-lock wigs, prettied up with plum-blossom lipstick, and practiced a seductive swing of their hips...
...Blossoming Imaginations. The modern second house offers a fertile field for inexpensive experiment that excites both architects and owners. People who would not think of doing anything architecturally far-out on Main Street somehow let their imaginations blossom when they get away from it for the summer. Within the past decade a diversity of new building materials has given the owner of the second house the chance to create new shapes, employ new methods of construction and invent new ways of blending outdoors and indoors...
...Blossom. Though many stocks are now down to attractive price-earnings ratios, the general public's buying spirit got little encouragement from many of last week's economic indicators (see THE NATION). More and more, investors were showing themselves disappointed in the sluggishness of the recovery and no longer hopeful that it will blossom into a boom or superboom. "Best guess at this point," wrote Walston & Co. Market Analyst Anthony Tabell. "is that it will be fairly close to two years before we have the start of another major bull market...