Word: blossoming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gates lieutenant who attended the final round of negotiations, recalls the Netscapers as being tense and openly distrustful. He attributes the breakdown to the "culture" of Silicon Valley. "The antibodies floating around in Mountain View were just too powerful to allow even a sensible business deal to blossom," he says...
...fission chain reaction. Altogether they unleash around 80 kilotons of atomic power, six times as powerful as the Fat Boy dropped on Hiroshima. The ground shakes sharply beneath the village of Khetolai, cracking houses and crashing plates to the floor. Eyewitnesses see a 325-ft.-high dust cloud "blossom like a lotus flower" high...
...which fads blossom and wither within nanoseconds, some physical trainers remain skeptics. "There's nothing new under the sun, and that goes for Krav Maga," asserts Emil Farkas, a karate instructor. "They're simply using the Israeli angle as a sales tool to pitch basic self-defense...
...oddly, scandal and trash may sometimes be transformed upward. Mere sleaze may blossom into art. Greek tragedy told stories more lurid than afternoon television does. (Next Jerry Springer: "Guys who murdered their fathers and married their mothers.") The tale of Mary Letourneau and the boy Vili even begins to touch us now with a certain screwball Romeo-and-Juliet poignancy. There's an interesting humanity in the tale, an aberrance with something almost sweet about...
...Chevrolet set/ Our steak and martini/ Is draft beer with weenie"*). She sat on the plush blue antique sofa, hair poufed out to here, with nails, makeup and outfit perfectly coordinated. She looked like a lotus blossom sitting next to George Jones, a perfect foil, but completely herself. It was the most relaxed I was ever to see her. Tammy was sweet, in the way that only Southern women are sweet, and a bundle of nerves. I don't ever think she got over her ascendancy from the beauty parlor. She was a vehicle for her Voice, and it seemed...