Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general, the magazine is afflicted with poor writing and, one therefore assumes, sloppy editing. The articles on nomads, whose "flocks thrive and blossom," is perhaps the worst offender...
...Leukemia, reported the World Health Organization, has strange geographic preferences that might contain some valuable clues to the origin of the disease. In the U.S., mortality from leukemia is 50% higher in cities than in rural areas. The disease generally seems to thrive in a belt stretching across the north of the country, particularly west of the Mississippi. In New York City, it occurs twice as often among the Jewish population as among Protestants or Roman Catholics. Mortality from leukemia is high in the U.S., Denmark and Israel but relatively low in France, Ireland, Italy and Japan...
...brands as Diamond T. Reo, Autocar, Available. Peterbilt and Divco. Chevy's and Ford's big lead comes from concentrating some 80% of their efforts on the popular, mass-produced light and compact trucks. This leaves the heavy-duty field wide open for smaller companies, which thrive by tailor-making trucks ranging from $6,500 highway tractors to $75,000 giants that can haul 49 tons of iron ore. Although they account for only 13% of industry production, the big trucks bring in 34% of the money...
...gives the place the air of a millinery bawdyhouse: most of the ladies in the paintings wear large, horticultural hats and little else. Painter Ben Johnson, 60, brings off the neat trick of evoking an almost Rubens fleshiness while adhering to a strict hard-edge technique, and his voluptuaries thrive surprisingly well in their poster environment...
...that the Big South like an untamed stallion, does its best to shake men loose. Eighty-mile-an-hour winds roar and whistle in its crags and canyons, rain drenches it (sometimes as much as 72 in. in three months), earth quakes shudder through the ground, and termites thrive and multiply. The people who came to such a country and stayed were, first of all, hardy, lonely pioneers and, secondly, oddball fugitives from the world of modern convenience...