Word: lushly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...50th state: inhabited islands of Hawaii, Oahu, Kahoolawe, Lanai, Maui, Molokai, Kauai, Niihau. Mean temp. 74°, annual precipitation ranging from a low of 14 in. on the moonlike volcanic coast of the "Big Island" of Hawaii to the U.S.'s highest of 471 in. on the lush island of Kauai. Agricultural economy ($302 million a year from little more than 300,000 acres): sugar (1,000,000 tons annually; $150 million), pineapple (30 million cases; $115 million), tourist attractions (175,000 visitors a year; $65 million), coffee, oranges, beef, coconuts, 900 species of flowering plants and trees...
...been more interested in vigorous trading, preferring to sell on faster deliveries, better-designed products, and, in some cases, cheaper prices. The British setback had been obscured by the pleasant short-term fact of prosperity in Britain's trade and payments balance. Britain has done well in the lush dollar markets, less well elsewhere. Last year Britain earned the biggest surplus of foreign exchange in its history. But it was achieved mainly by holding down imports-at the cost of limiting production and consumption at home-rather than by energetic and expanded sales abroad...
...Sung by the University of Kansas Choir with brass accompaniment, the work often had the rich sonority of a cathedral organ. A simple, stirring work with no sharply dissonant edges, the cantata was marked by the melodic interplay of brasses and voices and by some stunningly lush vocal climaxes, notably in the last stanza...
...bottle. He turned restlessly to science. He patented a preservative for ships' timbers and a system for heating houses, developed a "new theory of the universe" which attributed the movement of astral bodies in space to electrical attractions and repulsions. He was an immensely likable lush, and a wizard at the easel. But his pictures never sold well. They lacked extravagance and high polish; for all but the quietest of dining rooms they spoke too softly of small delights. At the end, his wife was forced to take in boarders to support the family. As his last job before...
Harry stayed there until he was 13; after their mother returned to New York, the boys were boarded out with relatives or at a succession of schools. It was a lonely time but also an exciting one. "I still have the impression," Belafonte says, "of lush green vegetation, white sandy beaches, rolling surf, endless winding roads. It was an environment that sang." The people sang with it. The streets of Kingston were thronged with piping vendors or politicians drumming up a vote in the lilting singsong of the islands. It was "a groovy time. I was a great night gazer...