Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owns, and some 1,000 short films to Manhattan's C&C Super Corp. C&C paid $12.2 million in cash and agreed to pay $3,000,000 more over the next two years. Last week O'Neil climaxed the coup with a $12 million flourish. He sold two unreleased films, Jet Pilot and The Conqueror, back to Howard Hughes himself for $8,000,000 cash and about $4,000,000 in future payments. (Hughes also bought back The Outlaw, for an additional undisclosed sum.) Teleradio thus emerges with a virtually assured cash profit...
Behind the great flourish of trumpets announcing free determination in the Sudan lay a policy of desperate expedience -proving that independence, even when it is freely extended, is not the easiest of gifts to receive...
...continues to flourish, the U.S. economy can gradually eliminate many of the shortages of 1955. As part of the effort to solve its awesome shortage of highways, New York state last week opened a new, three-mile bridge across the Hudson River's Tappan Zee, 18 miles north of Manhattan, bringing near to completion the longest single express highway in the world, the 427-mile, $1 billion Buffalo-to-Manhattan thruway. Even the shortage of highways may some day be solved, impossible as that may seem...
...Greedy labor unions and inept management are driving other newspapers out of business," he says. "I hope they don't, really, because I like to see variety. But one thing I know. The Mirror will flourish. And I shan't rest until the Pictorial overtakes the News of the World [the Sunday paper which, at 7,971,000 has the highest circulation on earth]. We won't be buying anything else for a while, though. We'll have to digest this lot before we look for our next meal...
Suggested the first: "A jam of tarts?" The second: "A flourish of strumpets?" The third: "An essay of Trollope's?" Then the dean of the dons, the eldest and most scholarly of them all, closed the discussion: "I wish that you gentlemen would consider 'An anthology of pros...