Word: flourishingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buyer is still the center of the retail trade, and will probably always remain so. He is the hub of a wheel around which flourish dozens of advisory bureaus connecting every phase of the business. They exist solely to support the buyer. He must go out and bring in the goods that will sell. It is on his success above all that every branch of the retailing industry must stand...
...knew all the rules. Then at 30, he was the third youngest Senator in U.S. history.* He affected pearl grey spats, plastered-down hair and cake-eater sideburns. He was cherubic in countenance, shy and courteous in manner, and he lacked his father's oratorical fire and flourish. He was, his senatorial elders decided, a mere shadow of Fighting...
...worked feverishly wiring 40,000 artificial appleblossoms to a score of real trees. Inside the entrance, four sequined, papier-mâché peacocks bore signs proclaiming: WE'RE PROUD AS A PEACOCK TO BE IN HARTFORD. This week the building opened its doors with a peacock-proud flourish: ten gallons of Arpege perfume (retails at $23.50 an ounce) were sprayed around the entrance...
...commission must be signed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary of State. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was sworn first, and his commission was countersigned by interim Secretary H. Freeman Matthews. Thereafter, Dulles countersigned for the other Cabinet members with a rare and wonderful flourish, thus...
...this general belief to Harvard. "The only thing you really need in a University," he states, "is ideas, and an administrator's job is partly to see that a Faculty and student body capable of having ideas are selected and partly to create an environment in which ideas can flourish...