Word: flourishingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vigné, whom generations of critics have crowned "the queen of letter writers." In this selection of 272 out of many hundreds of De Sévigné letters, the diadem seems to have its fair share of paste jewels, but it is worn with a regal flourish and idiosyncratic authority...
...House. Once a hotel, and still equipped with the long corridors and slatted doors of its former grandeur, the monstrous brick building offers its residents Claverly-sized rooms, a magnificent view of the river front, and an esprit de corps. Dances, intramural sports, and a keen sense of belonging flourish in the Grad House...
...that he too would stay home. Then, Professor Morton B. King Jr., chairman of the university's sociology department, resigned from the faculty. The university administration, he charged, is "no longer able to defend the freedom of thought, inquiry and speech which are essential for higher education to flourish." Two days later, at Mississippi State College, Political Scientist William Buchanan decided to resign too. The state house of representatives denounced the two professors as "misguided reformers," urged the heads of all state-supported colleges to "use every effort to prevent subversive influences from infiltrating into our institutions." Governor James...
...like Bagnall, has spent a lot of time on the bench after playing at Watson. Batchelder's endearing trait was his complete absorption in the heckler's taunts. In the trade, he is known as a "shaper," a goalie who makes unnecessary saves and motions, playing with an artistic flourish in an effort to please the crowd...
...must soon quit the Scene, but you may live to see our Country flourish, as it will amazingly and rapidly after the War is over. Like a Field of young Indian Corn, which long Fair weather and Sunshine had enfeebled and discolour'd, and which in that weak State, by a Thunder Gust of violent Wind, Hail and Rain seem'd to be threatend with absolute Destruction; yet the Storm being once past, it recovers fresh Verdure, shoots up with double Vigour, and delights the Eye not of its Owner only, but of every observing Traveller...