Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia's bearish, boorish behavior: "It is difficult to forgive from a recent ally such attacks as the following, broadcast to Norway by Moscow radio on June 8, 1946: 'This little country [England] went to war because it and its fascist reactionary leaders love war and thrive on war. The attack on Hitlerite Germany was purely incidental...
White people who live in tropical climates-according to Kipling, Conrad, Somerset Maugham and other tale-spinners-generally suffer a morbid decay called tropical deterioration. Not so, say the scientists. A monumental study recently published in Medicine argues that white men, if well-fed and guarded against disease, can thrive in the tropics...
With Leo dashing on & off the field, it usually takes the Dodgers longer than any other club to play a nine-inning game. The Dodgers seem to thrive on continuous hubbub; their rivals don't. Explains Leo: "When I'm out on that field I like nobody but the guy who's got Dodger written on his chest. Now afterwards, sure, I'll take one of the other team out and buy them dinner, but during the game I hate them...
...anti-American crime is not the color of a man's skin. The crime is the color of a man's mind. The shoddy, envenomed mentalities that thrive at the expense of their neighbors should be held strictly accountable to a court...
...aggressive designs." He replied: "It won't change a damned thing. They are saying that anyhow. But it would help us to make people understand that we have to gather all our strength and resources for whatever is in store for us. Otherwise the Russians will continue to thrive on division. There is no country in the world where they have not attempted to exploit for their own benefit any political or economic confusion...