Word: burgeon
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...back, in the style of, better brace yourself, Jack Pickford or the late Douglas Fairbanks. The fact that I have to reach back four decades to describe his hairdo will only stress the curiously old-fashioned look of him. Some men dash into a room, some gallop, others float, burgeon, slide, pad, lope or glide. McNamara's entrance is something between a creep and a stroll...
...avoid the latter is eschew the former. That is to say that active government must be Big Government, and only laissez-faire principles can achieve lean administration. Students of public administration have for some time rejected this view, arguing that government bureaucracies are just as likely to burgeon for lack of energetic social policies as in consequence of them. There is no area in which this truth has been more relentlessly displayed than in the field of traffic safety. Year by year as the number of automobiles and drivers grew, so did the number of accidents and injuries...
This being so, one of the tasks facing a director is to see that the legitimately rhetorical is not allowed to burgeon (or "escalate," to use up-to-date terminology) into the bombastic. It is all too easy for Julius Caesar, in performance, to turn into one long shouting match. The present production is not sufficiently free of this tendency. Fortissimo speech is not this troupe's strongpoint; and some of its playing goes so far out of control as to be totally unintelligible. Its actors need to learn that forcefulness is not necessarily directly proportional to loudness...
...could carry the American people with him, whatever sacrifice Viet Nam might require -and public-opinion polls bore him out. Still, the pressures from home and abroad mounted with the very lack of successful contacts with the enemy-and, above all, as the U.S. commitment of men began to burgeon. The confusion was unnecessary, but it was undeniably true that leaders both in the U.S. and in foreign lands had begun to lose sight of precisely what the U.S. wanted in Viet Nam, and why America was there. The peace offensive contained the answer...
...collecting $100,000 each year for seven years for his presidency of the World's Fair Corp., and three of his top aides draw between $35,000 and $45,000 annually-salaries reasonable enough for the officers of a large corporation. But Moses allowed the fair staff to burgeon unrealistically, and costs skyrocketed. Moses tacitly admitted the situation last October by slashing the permanent payroll. He promises a "new and brighter show in 1965," says of the present crisis that "we have survived worse weather." Nonetheless, the forecast for the fair in 1965 remains cloudy...