Word: thrives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fresh water of the St. Lawrence and into Lake Ontario to spawn, then developed a fresh-water species. The building of Canada's Welland Canal provided a detour around the natural barrier of Niagara Falls, and in the past 20 years the pests have begun to thrive in Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and, more recently, in Lake Superior. Multiplying enormously, with each female averaging 61,500 eggs, and feeding greedily, with each maturing lamprey devouring up to 40 pounds of fish, they have already wiped out the $5,000,000-a-year lake-trout fisheries at Lakes Huron...
Only the thousands of children seemed to thrive in the suffocating atmosphere. "Yes, sonny, you can touch everything," answered the G.M. attendant while adding in an undertone to the father, "Everything but the G.M. chorus girls." And sonny did touch everything; he wasn't bothered in the least by the scores of attendants who wiped away his greasy fingerprints as soon as he moved on to touch the next thing. The clean-up staff was thoroughly decent about the situation, however, and no less friendly than the G.M. lawyers who undoubtedly waited in the wings to take care of sonny...
...Cleveland Plain Dealer and News and Scripps-Howard Press appealed the ban anyway. Last week an Ohio Court of Appeals ruled that the press had a right in the courtroom. Said the Court of Appeals: "A defendant has no right ... to a private trial . . . Crime and corruption grow and thrive in darkness and secrecy. Justice thrives in the open sunlight...
...delegations were on the way to Yalta, Harry Hopkins reported to F.D.R. that Churchill "says that if we had spent ten years on research, we could not have found a worse place in the world than Yalta . . .He claims it is good for typhus and deadly lice, which thrive in those parts...
Nothing seems to get under his skin, neither the gallery nor his own occasional lapses. Unlike the pros who expect the crowd to stop breathing while they shoot, he seems to thrive on noise. "I guess it's because I'm used to the noise of football crowds," he says. "Besides, when you have a lot of people watching, you naturally try harder...