Word: thrive
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...child's travails. Babies who become wards of the state have often wound up being boarded in hospitals for months, tended by ever-changing shifts of nurses. Such institutional care not only leads to emotional troubles down the road but can also actually cause "failure to thrive," a medical term for a condition in which infants do not gain enough weight and fail to develop normally. It has been loosely translated as a loss of interest in life. Older children may be shuttled through a series of foster homes, never learning to love or trust a soul. Staying at home...
...Globe, suggests that feminists, allying themselves with the proponents of the sexual revolution, have been partially responsible for discrediting the notion that women should be treated with "particular care and respect," a notion that, she states, "served the interests of women," since women, the "smaller and weaker sex," "cannot thrive in a world where men are not socialized to control themselves...
...democracy, effective law enforcement requires community support. Without it, the concept of ordered liberty is impossible. However true public- police partnerships are fashioned -- and they do exist -- they can never thrive, as the Kerner commissioners put it, "when a substantial segment of the community feels threatened by the police and regards the police as an occupying force...
...line seems to thrive on being aggressive," Burke said...
...source of much American mythology. Washington promulgated the fable that any boy -- or girl -- could grow up to be President; Hollywood invented the fantasy that the same boy or girl could become a movie star. Both cities must appeal to hearts and minds; both require a mass audience; both thrive on applause...