Word: flourishingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Depression came, Lavina dug 700 holes, each 18 inches deep, and planted dahlias. Then she made them grow-in a country where dahlias do not flourish. Garden-clubbers came from miles around to see it, and Lavina's "dahlia money" helped send all of her eight children to college...
OWES $25,OOO BACK TAXES AND INTEREST, REVENUE AGENTS CLAIM. Last week McCarthy called a press conference. Its purpose: to flourish a Treasury tax-refund check...
...Lieut. James W. McDonald, a West Pointer from Huntington, N.Y., tough jung'e training of combat teams from the Canal Zone's 33rd Infantry Regiment was the basic mission for both expeditions: choosing historical routes was an interest-arousing flourish. But playing the role of a conquistador caught McDonald's imagination: for Operation Balboa he briefed himself carefully under Balboa Expert Juan Rubio of the University of Panama. Then he followed the most authoritative route over the isthmus' north-coast range, down a remote river and across the densely jungled central plain. At length he faced...
...seemed just another minor setback when, on a September morning in 1928, Dr. Alexander Fleming looked at a little glass dish in which he had been growing some staphylococci (the germs that flourish in boils) and saw that the culture was "spoiled." A kind of claim-jumping mold had moved in and started its own colonies among the staph. A less observant scientist, or one more fussy about keeping a tidy laboratory, would have thrown out the adulterated growth. But Fleming's keen blue eye noticed a peculiarity: around each patch of mold growth was a bare ring where...
...Interests. Cutting across all party lines are the special interests, which flourish in a body where a government's very life depends on the swing of 10 or 20 votes. Biggest is the alcohol lobby, which keeps French winegrowers, beet farmers and distillers producing twice the alcohol the French can drink and forces the government to buy the surplus at four times the world price. The North African lobby, run by Senator Henri Borgeaud, took alarm when Mendès tried to reduce the colons' control of the local police. As a result, Algeria's Rene Mayer...