Word: blossoms
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...foothills of Lebanon's Mount Hermon last week, the quiet of almond-blossom time was shattered by the whine of jets, the clatter of tank treads and the thunder of explosions. Israel continued its attacks on Palestinian guerrilla bases inside Lebanon (TIME, March 6), and the fighting there indirectly led to a skirmish on the Syrian border and at least temporarily deprived the fedayeen of one more base of operation against Israel...
...dark, a spot whose neatness and order and placidity are emphasized by the chaos of cables and cameras and crewpeople surrounding it. It is the eye of the hurricane, calm and bright and perfect, and it is out of that calm bright perfection that a movie will blossom forth...
...Indeed, with the President sequestered with his aides and Chinese officials much of the time, the First Lady's own brand of gracious, chatty kitchen diplomacy did much to humanize the formality of the Nixons' journey. Stiff and sequestered herself in years past, she seemed to blossom in her role of the not-so-innocent abroad. Unlike Jackie Kennedy, who tended to upstage J.F.K. in their forays abroad, Pat Nixon has proved herself a master of the very subtle art of being winning and winsome in the role of distaff stage left. "The people," she says unabashedly...
Power has made Kissinger blossom. When he was a professor of government at Harvard, his colleagues appreciated his wit, but they never considered him the life of any party. When Kissinger first took his job under Nixon, he was tense and brusque. Now that he is solidly established as undisputed boss of foreign affairs, he is more relaxed than ever, and he is visibly-some would say ostentatiously-enjoying himself...
...Harvard students were willing to face censure, disciplinary action, beatings or imprisonment to tell Harvard that its actions were reprehensible. There must, in fact, be larger causes behind the strike. These are many and various, for it happened at the end of a decade which had seen activism blossom across the American landscape. But to understand fully why many of us chose to oppose Harvard at that point in time we must examine the values which Harvard cherishes and teaches...