Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smashing Barriers. Once the sport of the titled and the wealthy, the chase no longer has an easily identifiable horsy set. Distinguished old blueblooded hunting associations like the Quorn, which was organized 250 years ago, still flourish. But the 200 hunts in the British Isles today include such proletarian pacesetters as the Banwen Miners, a club formed in 1963 by Welsh coal diggers. While the miners may not all wear the scarlet coat and velvet cap, they bound after the fox with abandon. The Duchess of Beaufort, who rode with them one Saturday, graciously paid the supreme compliment of pronouncing...
With considerable dramatic flourish, the Cambridge School Committee las night voted not to reconsider its refusal to allow Stokely Carmichael to speak in Rindge Tech Auditorium...
...ultimate flourish to all this legislative hocus pocus is a provision in the program prohibiting the federal government from setting up its own insured program unless it can prove the states (and USAF) are not doing the job -- and making such a determination could take years...
...Stern's violin suddenly snapped in the final movement of a Brahms concerto. Concertmaster Druian quickly gave Stern his Stradivarius, passed the disabled instrument to Assistant Concertmaster Daniel Majeske and continued playing on Majeske's violin. Majeske replaced the string and-switch, switch-Stern finished with a flourish on his fiddle, having missed only one measure of music. Says Druian, with the understatement typical of the supercool concertmaster: "It's all part...
...reaffirmed his own devotion to the divinity school-an attitude that has not always been appreciated by all of Harvard. Scholarship at the school, he said, "must be the equal of this or any other university," and the school must also help create "the conditions where the faith can flourish." Pusey conceded that faith cannot be willed and salvation cannot be found in the study of theology. But, he pleaded, "can we not now, when occasionally we sense the Holy Spirit, undertake to be a little less luminous in our doubts, a little more ready to receive than to resist...