Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schuman's job was not only to deflate prices; he had to deflate the grand illusions, the bitterness, the suppressed (and sometimes open) hysteria, and indeed the sense of frustrated tragedy which France had acquired in three wars and on which both the Communists and De Gaulle thrive. Schuman had to show France-if he could-how she could sink gently, down to the solid reality of earth...
...Articles like yours may eventually convince such celebrities that the publicity they thrive on runs more to the tune of "Married five years," not "Married five times...
Writer George Reavey is a man who can write placidly about a national literature in chains. "Russian society," he writes, "has not lost the motive power of belief, and where belief is, there a measure of intolerance is bound to thrive." Even the decree that Russian detective and adventure fiction must fall into line "is understandable in so far as this sort of fiction will be largely read by the youth of the country and the state has an immediate interest in the shaping of the outlook of the younger generation...
Back in 1917, the ranch's cattle-English Shorthorns and Herefords-were doing poorly. They sickened in the blazing Texas sun. Kleberg decided to try Brahman bulls, which thrive on grass feeding and India's killing heat. Other cattlemen shook their heads. Brahmans had not worked out too well for other breeders. But Kleberg bred the Brahmans and Shorthorns together till he evolved what he wanted, a cross-breed bull named Monkey...
...field to a catch crop of mustard, which would also be plowed under while green to enrich the soil. County Agricultural Committees, consisting of local farmers and Ministry of Agriculture officials, have broad powers to instruct farmers what to sow and produce. But Dennis claimed that mustard would not thrive because the field was infested with charlock (wild mustard, a common agricultural pest detested by grain farmers). Anyway, he said, "I reckon to know more about how to till my own land than any Government official." Defiantly, he sowed buckwheat. Thereby he committed two offenses: 1) he ignored the Committee...