Word: blossoming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Civil Rights movement began to blossom in the fifties: the Supreme Court threw out the "separate but equal" doctrine and ordered school desegregation in the 1950s. Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus in the 1950s. Martin Luther King rose to national prominence in the 1950s. And a man from Missouri, Harry S. Truman, desegregated the nation's armed services...
Dartmouth (4-3-1 overall) is one of the Cinderella teams in the Ivy League this year. After a few years of program building and heavier recruiting, the Big Green is beginning to blossom and is now a threat to teams of the caliber of the Crimson...
...routine toddler pandemonium, Helen is talking about the 21-month-old child on her lap. "All of us have a season," she says. "With Denise, we know we'll only have a season. But we make the most of what we have today. You just let the child blossom into your life. Let the joy come out." The doctors said Denise would die of AIDS by Christmas last year, but she has come out of a coma twice. "When they start to get sick, they may just want to lie down," Helen says. She is a 41-year-old black...
...high- flying blossom of color, the grandest gathering of athletes in the history of the world marks the opening of the Seoul Games. -- Returing to test the dangers...
Even more dangerous are solar flares, which usually blossom on the sun around the peak of the eleven-year solar cycle. During these massive explosions, which astronomers can spot in the form of extra-bright splotches suddenly appearing on the sun, bursts of X rays and charged particles are hurled outward at high velocities. Because protons from a large flare can easily penetrate the walls of a spacecraft and fatally riddle the body of an astronaut in half an hour, planners envision an onboard shelter into which the crew could repair as soon as a solar-flare warning was sounded...