Word: flourish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...myself, 'Well, silly me, why did I try that one on for size. It clearly wasn't going to work.' " Loring found her an ideal sounding board: "She had an extraordinary ability to be interested in the person she was working with." He adds with a flourish, "She makes you feel you could do almost anything. Any man married to Jackie probably would have to become President of the United States...
...scores of fossils are specimens of a turkey-size creature that resembled both dinosaurs and birds. Perhaps even more important was the discovery of 140 skulls of small mammals that lived 80 million years ago. The mammal finds may provide clues to the evolutionary events that allowed mammals to flourish as the dinosaurs disappeared...
Farrakhan and the other racialists in the black community (and they are not all figures of the margin, and many of them flourish in popular culture) are precisely such mongerers and such floggers. Their chilling thesis is that the similarity between the black past in America and the black present in America is greater than the difference. For the past hundred years or so, the Jews have also had to contend with such a thesis about their own modernity. If they are more secure than they have ever been, in America and (for different reasons) in Israel, it is because...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology is a welcoming museum. The entrance features a bright orange temporary exhibit enthusiastically titled, "Everybody Likes Trilobites--The Exhibit." It's a user-friendly exhibit that informs visitors, "Time treated the trilobites pretty well," and draws them further into the museum with a flourish: "This way to more fossil in vertebrates...
...Georgia's first freely elected President, only to stun everyone again, this time by forging a brutish dictatorship whose excesses provoked his own violent ouster. Last week, after a 20-month exile in which he fought an unsuccessful war to regain power, Zviad Gamsakhurdia carried out his most baffling flourish yet, shrouding his apparent death in the same jumble of contradictions with which he lived his life...