Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office last January, he has pushed through sizable raises in teachers' salaries, begun a big school-construction program, successfully sponsored a $100 million bond issue for roads, cut his own executive department budget by better than $100,000 a year, and-according to statistics that he loves to flourish-persuaded some $250 million worth of new industry to locate in Alabama...
...19th century Philadelphia stagehand bequeathed his head to the local company "to represent the skull of Yorick in the play Hamlet.'" With an exultant flourish, a Denver printer willed five shares of his brewery stock to the president of the Colorado Woman's Christian Temperance Union. German Poet Heinrich Heine left everything to his wife on the specific condition that she remarry, "because then there will be at least one man to regret my death...
...capable hands of Harold Cherry and John Milligan. But the strongest impression accrues from Philip Bosco's superlative Pistol, whose ruddy complexion and handlebar moustache suit well his resounding bravado and gusto. When he threatens Fluellen, "Base Trojan, thou shalt die," he whips out his sword with a flourish and fumblingly drops it on the ground; that is Pistol in a nutshell...
...Gallop. A body lies on the floor. A little to one side, on all fours, crouches a fat old bloodhound. Its ears are pendulous, its muzzle is prominent, its bloodshot eyes stare dolefully out of enormous pouches. "Dead!" the bloodhound woofs with astonishment, and then, with a dramatic flourish of its dewlaps, the comical creature rears up on its skinny hind legs and goes waddling off on the scent of the killer...
...mountains soaring - but a sad smallness of vision afflicts universities in the Rockies. To the west, in California, and to the east, in Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan, great state universities flourish; but in Montana, Idaho and Colorado, regents rave, professors quit, presidents vanish, and in consequence academic excellence seems forever elusive...