Word: lush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern Negroes vote Democratic; on this vote rests the party's hope of victory in such important states as New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois. But the national party leans even more heavily on the South. Nearly half of the Democratic Senators and Representatives are from the South, and enjoy lush seniority...
...into yet another sideline. Through its new $30 million, 800-mile Los Angeles-El Paso pipeline surged the first barrel of gasoline. When rfie flow hits a peak, Southern Pacific will deliver up to 20,000 bbls. daily to towns in New Mexico, Arizona and California's lush Imperial Valley...
...knew how. He was bedeviled by billions of new commitments-e.g., veterans' benefits, interest on the tremendous new debt-that he could do nothing about. So he slashed billions from the armed services on the valid theory that they had learned to live extravagantly in the lush days of World War II. A slash, his budget people told him, would teach the services to live efficiently; once they had learned austerity again, perhaps they could have some more money...
...drunk, however, is a drunk, and 117 minutes is a very long time to have one around. The audience has plenty of leisure in which to realize that if there is anything more tedious than a lush, it is apt to be a reformed lush...
Together, California's Imperial and Coachella Valleys form one of the wonders of the New World. Stretching from the Mexican border to the outskirts of Los Angeles, the area is a lush, natural hothouse, larger than the state of Delaware and yielding as many as three crops a year ("You plant the seeds," a local saying goes, "and jump out of the way"). Within 50 years the valleys have been changed from sun-cracked desert (summer temperatures range from 100° F. to 120° F.) into one of the biggest irrigated regions on earth...