Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood lawyers, who thrive on champagne-spiked arguments, had another one: onetime Actress Marion Davies was sued for $11,582, the catering cost of a party at her home last year celebrating the marriage (now defunct) of Marilyn Morrison to Sob-Singer Johnny Ray. The plaintiff: Marion's old friend Charlie
This hopped-up pace, which gives him an income of about $150,000 a year, would flatten many a man more robust than 135-lb, O'Connor. But, except for a tendency to colds, Donald seems to thrive on it. In addition to becoming a TV fixture, he has signed contracts with Fox, Paramount and Universal-International to do six movies during the next two years (one of them: White Christmas, in which he will co-star with Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney). Says Donald with satisfaction: "It's great, being busy. After you spend 26 years entertaining...
...Editor Ragsdale is convinced that if gambling flourishes in Galveston, vice, prostitution and illegal liquor sales will thrive in its wake. He plans to continue to keep a sharp eye on the gamblers, who as a result of the paper's campaign have been forced to lay low. Says Ragsdale : "If they open up again, we'll go after them...
...Colonists on the airless moon, they say. could erect Plexiglas domes and fill them with any atmosphere they liked. They could grow bumper crops in the unfailing sunlight, could extract metals and oxygen from the rocks. Arthur C. Clarke in The Explora, tion of Space argues that man might thrive under such conditions better than he does on earth...
...loyalty. Nothing more than enumeration of the many defections during that period, moreover, is necessary to convince readers that the breakdown in authority suspended Inertness, set the Russians mulling over past injustices as they never had before, and thus created the only conditions in which organized resistance might thrive...