Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last minute EIBL victory flourish served only to bolster Harvard's prestige, as its final 5-4 league record barely qualified for fifth place in the ten-team league. Meanwhile, at Princeton, the Tigers tied Yale for first place by downing Cornell to finish with a 7-2 record...
Though he gives the credit to Bolivar, Dickie Arias himself apparently thought up the idea for the gathering, as an extra flourish to a commemorative meeting of the Council of the Organization of American States starting in Panama June 22. It was a proposal that might have aroused nervous objections; leaving 20 capitals without Presidents all at once was an idea without precedent. But the invitation got a warm reception three days after it had gone out; seven Presidents accepted. Among those who approved the idea in principle-subject to demands that may be made on him by the adjournment...
...Tambi kept it alive by coaxing the publishing firm of Nicholson & Watson Ltd. into taking a planned loss of ?6,000 a year (roughly $24,000) as a "prestige gesture." With Poetry London and the ?6,000, Tambi played his role of sub-patron of the arts with a flourish, built PL's circulation to 10,000, made it a proving ground for Britain's promising younger poets. But a managerial rift brought the magazine to its death...
Then Khrushchev launched into his main theme: "Our trade would hardly flourish if it were based on the sale of crabs on our side, and the sale of herring on yours. Though I do believe that our crabs are very good. And your herring is wonderful, particularly if you eat it with a bit of vodka. But that is very little if one wants to develop really large-scale trade...
...such lowly posts as zoo keepers (one of whom appropriated the zoo's imported canaries for his private collection). Some tidbits: ¶ Perón did his mother-in-law out of half of her bequest from the late Eva Perón, then with a medieval flourish had Evita's brother, Juan Duarte, killed because he knew too much.* ¶ The dictator lavished $20 million on the clubs of his Union of High School Students, favoring teen-age girls with gold wrist watches and nylons before eventually choosing one 14-year-old, Nelly Rivas, as his special...