Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reynolds urges that Man should provide a habitat For his poor hairy dumb relations, A sort of ape's United Nations. The state of Florida might serve As one great simian preserve, Where the whole tribe would perhaps thrive, Or just contrive to stay alive. And in this tax-free paradise Who knows, the ape might
...accounts, dope is easily available, almost any favor can be bought and only the cunning and the brutal thrive. Moreover, penologists know that the Cook County Jail is by no means the sole or worst offender. In the wake of the disclosures, similar investigations were suggested for the city jail, where a guard recently beat a prisoner to death, and the juvenile home, where homosexuality is also rampant...
...ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body...
...been relegated to memory-and to the big-band buffs. These are the forlorn breed of fanatics who can not only instantly identify Artie Shaw's 1940 recording of Stardust but can even name the trumpet and trombone soloists on it (Billy Butterfield and Jack Jenney), and who thrive as much on nonmusical nostalgia as on genuine musical connoisseurship...
...attained greatness as Dean, however, in leading the growth and transformation of Harvard Law School in the postwar years. It is important, but not vital, that the School's physical plant greatly expanded during his Deanship. Great schools can thrive for a time in inadequate buildings. It is vitally important, however, that the Griswold years saw the faculty, the library and the curriculum grow to meet the needs of the time. New areas of the law had to be studied and to be taught. Old areas of the law required fresh thinking and new approaches. American lawyers were increasingly involved...