Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, he made the clearest statement to date of his domestic program. Frankly, he "bought" most of the New Deal social gains. But he made a careful line of separation: "We must create an economic climate in which business, industry and agriculture can grow and flourish. . . . Studied hostility toward our job-producing machinery must cease...
...Totem Pole also were Lenn White and friend waltzing with eyes closed, and with quite a flourish. So much so that Thad Webb reports almost being floored several times as Johann Strauss put Lenn in the groove...
Their appreciation began to flourish when the Fourth Air Force launched a project to teach camouflage on the stage. Technical Sergeant Harry Horner, ex-stage designer, dreamed up a musical show (You Bet Your Life) and a troupe of Air Force men and Hollywood girls went on the road with...
Down U-Boats. The Japs also respect a smaller brother of the Hellcat, the Wildcat fighter, and a halfbrother, the Avenger, a torpedo bomber. The Germans learned to respect them also in the once nip-&-tuck Battle of the Atlantic. With a "now-it-can-be-told" flourish, the Navy has let out the news that the most potent weapon of all against the U-boats were Wildcats, flying from baby flattops, and rocket-firing Avengers. In one six-month period, these planes sent 31 U-boats to the bottom, more than half of the entire total sunk...
With this flourish, Admiral Ernest Joseph King this week wound up his first report of the war - a 50,000-word document comparable to George Marshall's report on the Army (TIME, Sept...