Word: thrives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the deer's increase is man's war on wolves, coyotes and wildcats, the deer's most destructive natural enemies. Another is the deer's adjustment to civilization. They seem to browse and thrive better in the thickets and brush at the edges of cities and cleared farmland than in dense forest. Deer have been shot by New York and New Jersey hunters within sight of Manhattan's skyscrapers...
Marimos were discovered in Lake Akan in 1897, and Japanese biologists, including Emperor Hirohito, have studied them lovingly in every possible way. But no one has figured out why they thrive in so few places, or how they reproduce. One theory is that water currents of just the right kind are needed to bounce the marimos along the bottom and detach bits of fuzzy green stuff to grow into young marimos. No marimo lover, however skilled, has duplicated this process...
...many company publications in danger of losing this battle? The chief reason is that the majority deliberately pull their punches. Unlike union papers, which thrive on dispute and energetically exploit any issue that affects the worker's welfare, most house organs concentrate on personal notes and chitchat. They not only shun controversy but steer clear of any stories on company policies and problems. A recent survey of 75 house organs in the Los Angeles area showed that only 15% made any attempt to communicate management plans and policies, almost all the rest were filled with social and personal items...
...West of the jungle rise the high Andes -"God Almighty with His back up." On this vast plateau the ancient Incas, seeming to thrive on the cold, thin air, built the roads and stone cities for a creative population. The 5,400,000 numb survivors cling to their ancestral languages and communal farms, to their llamas and alpacas, but they have almost no part in their country's money economy. Only the rare towns and the mines, where U.S.-owned companies dig copper, lead, zinc and silver, are in this century...
...London bureau's Robert Lubar wondered how the Laborite rebel would like being shadowed by a U.S. newsman. As it turned out, Bevan liked it fine. He began by taking Lubar to task for what he said was TIME'S rough treatment of him. "But you thrive on it," Lubar remarked. Bevan snorted and replied: "If you administer strychnine to a man over a number of years, the fact that he survives is no credit to you. You don't call it humanitarian...