Search Details

Word: blossoming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...conference of the China Writers' Association last January proclaimed the need for "creative freedom" and sanctioned the publication of "scar literature," the genre of harsh recollections of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. If greater truthfulness about national life in general is permitted to blossom, it will benefit not just the quality of literature but the entire body politic and will kindle a conscious--and unconscious--search among Chinese for the focus of their civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China the Puzzle of the New | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...clear last fall that these fledgling icemen would blossom as they have. The Don Sweeneys, Lane MacDonalds, and Jerry Pawloskis came advertised as big recruits, but the key to the Class of '88 has been its lesser-known members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '88's Eight: Hockey Freshmen | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...lawyer. Although Boswell did settle down some after marrying his beloved wife Margaret, Edinburgh in the shadow of his father and the law was never a pleasant home for him. "Only in London were his talents and personality appreciated at their full value. Only in London did mere existence blossom into life." In London was Johnson, Burke, Goldsmith along with the usual "whirlwind of executions, dinner and girls," Boswell's appetite for adventure stagnated in Edinburgh as he yearned for the big city...

Author: By Nicholas T. Dawidoff, | Title: Biographer Biographied | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

...seeing a love affair blossom between a President and his people [NATION, Oct. 22]. After what we have been through in the past two decades, the change is welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 12, 1984 | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...popped your cherry blossom...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: What's the Message? | 10/24/1984 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Next