Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mixed with soil, and they can be carried by farmers' boots, auto tires, shipments of farm products or almost anything else that moves. Experts shudder to think what would happen if a hurricane were to pick up the seeds and scatter them like smoke. The parasite can probably thrive throughout the South, from Virginia to eastern Texas. It can live on wild grasses, including the common crabgrass, and the 20-year life of its seeds makes it a stubborn enemy...
...mining potpourri into a business giant with holdings worth $25 million. He could be counted upon to administer Treasury as a business-with a public trust-instead of a political plaything. Midwesterner Humphrey was a proud conservative who believed-and went far toward proving- that individual initiative could best thrive with a minimum of Government interference. It was most advisedly that Ike once called Humphrey "my best appointment...
Into the Rackets. The McClellan committee investigation reaches far beyond the skulduggery of any individual, even a Dave Beck. It goes to a fundamental U.S. proposition: that labor and management, through their mutually honest efforts at collective bargaining, shall both thrive in a free economy. It was to correct a management-weighted imbalance that the Wagner Labor Relations act (John McClellan voted for it) was passed in 1935. But that, in turn, created an equally oppressive, labor-weighted imbalance that even the Taft-Hartley law (McClellan voted for it, too) failed to remedy. Unchecked by restraining laws, some labor leaders...
Older professions also thrive, Len Coulter warned would-be immigrants. Most New York girls who have left home, he said, "though highly paid by British standards," manage to get by only if they "have made themselves 'interesting' to the boss, or have found sugar-daddies to support them." Money-mad males survive by corruption. "Most of America's metropolitan areas are controlled by grafters and gangster elements," added Coulter, who in his seven years in the U.S. has done most of his traveling as a New Jersey-Manhattan commuter. Before taking a driver's test...
...great hope is that the new synthetic penicillins may prove free of natural penicillin's tendency to cause serious allergic effects in some patients. Best of all, they may cope with those sophisticated germs that have developed complete resistance to natural penicillin and even (in some cases) thrive...