Word: flourishings
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...inspired by the war or politics. The first rocks thrown in anger were hurled through the muggy Friday night of May 1 by beery students who could not resist the urge to dance on a Kent street. Hundreds of students were drinking at the bull-and-beer spots that flourish in most college towns. Spirits were light. A crowd swarmed into the warm night, blocking busy North Water Street, responding to the rock beat...
...primary goal the elimination of Vietcong forces; but its modus vivendi would encompass a larger range of social and economic tendencies which are compatible with the American presence. As in South Vietnam, U.S. strategy in Cambodia amounts to shoring up a military dictatorship that will permit American interests to flourish there...
...real struggle for power must usually be hidden. This phenomenon has no analogy in the American government. The U. S. Constitution sets out to sabotage the "efficient secret": the purpose of that document is to bring the struggle for power out into the open. Parties and party conventions flourish here, of course, but the basic decisions of government do not occur in them. They result from the all-too-public, often stalemated dialogue between the President and the Congress...
Gilbert Lee Beckley is-or was-a valuable man to the Cosa Nostra. He helped the mob flourish in the green field of betting on college and professional athletics. Handling as much as $250,000 worth of bets daily, Beckley, 58, mastered all the tricks of his ar-can'e trade: wangling information from locker rooms, computing odds in his head, occasionally bribing athletes. Once Beckley was discovered behind a scheme to fix college basketball games by bribing the referees. On another occasion, word flashed along his betting network that bookies need not worry about the outcome...
...shake down the straight gay in return for not revealing him; the bookstores and movie-makers who keep raising prices because they are the only outlet for pornography; heads of "modeling" agencies and other pimps who exploit both the hustlers and the johns-these are the parasites who flourish in the ghetto...