Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walls of the first-floor rooms, which the Indians had entered through the ceilings. In the first few weeks they built and consecrated a makeshift church and laid out a plaza in the conventional Spanish fashion. Buildings gradually grew around the plaza. But San Gabriel de Yunque did not thrive. Its settlers were plagued by bedbugs and lice, and their crops were destroyed by field mice. After failing to find gold or other valuable minerals, Oñate left his colony. The capital was moved to Santa Fe, the buildings crumbled, and when the Indians of San Juan pueblo planted...
...John Dewey was worriedly deploring the excesses of progressive education. He was right. Yet the best of his ideas survive and thrive-not in the few U.S. schools that still seem to be straight out of Auntie Mame, but in such well-ordered citadels of learning as Chicago's private Francis W. Parker School...
...hands of Kramer?'" At first, Kramer tried to build up the pro game, signed new players: Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, Chile's Luis Ayala, the U.S.'s Barry MacKay and Butch Buchholz. "But it soon became clear," wrote Kramer, "that my pro tour could not thrive on its own without open championships." So he decided to get out completely-in hopes that the I.L.T.F. would reconsider. Will it work? "That's up to the people in control of the amateur game," wrote Kramer...
...dealerships, Ford 8,000, Chrysler not quite 6,000, American Motors 3,000, Studebaker little more than 2,000. There is, of course, more to it than that. G.M. has improved its styling (notably on Buick and Oldsmobile), does not have a single dog in its garage. "We thrive on competition," said Ed Cole in a speech last week that seemed to be aimed at reassuring Bobby Kennedy and his trust busters. "It makes us more responsive to modern needs and demands of the American public...
...typical star, must have been bright enough 2 billion years ago to make the surface of the earth much warmer than it is now. Perhaps this is why the oldest fossils found in ancient rocks are remains of algae, some of whose modern descendants still thrive in hot water...