Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third new production of the season, he resurrected that bubbly old favorite, Die Fledermaus, of Johann Strauss (the Younger), which had not been heard at the Met since 1905. As he had with Verdi's Don Carlo (TIME, Nov. 13), Bing rechristened it with just the right flourish by enlisting some bright new help imported from Broadway for the occasion...
...confess that their apparent psychic powers were an "absolute fraud," really started something. By 1854 (while the Fox sisters were still "psychic"), 15,000 earnest believers had signed a petition demanding that Congress appoint a committee of scientists to investigate such phenomena.* And belief in spiritualism continues to flourish. This month, Britain's House of Commons gravely read for the second time a bill to protect "genuine" mediums by repealing the Witchcraft...
...reading will follow a special Christmas dinner at the regular 5:30 to 7 p.m. time. Carol singing will be the final flourish of the holiday program...
Dartmouth and Amherst have expressed their satisfaction at our solution. With a fine diplomatic flourish, Amherst President Charles Cole wrote : "I would say that Judge Linen had beaten Judge Solomon, for he has doubled instead of halved the baby...
...years ago, in The New Democracy, using the jargon of the comrades, Mao wrote: "The world now lives in an era of revolution and war, a new era, where capitalism is definitely dying and socialism is beginning to flourish. In the international environment of the middle of the 20th Century, there are only two ways open to all decent people in the colonies and semi-colonies. They must either go over to the side of the imperialist front or take part in the world revolution. They must choose between these two. There is no other...