Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ruiz Pineda escaped from a junta prison after five months. Finding himself the ranking leader of the outlawed party, he went underground. Cool-headed Ruiz Pineda seemed to thrive on his dangerous life, moving around Caracas at night, seldom sleeping two days in the same house, turning out clandestine newspapers, meeting his lieutenants and bragging of his sixth sense for danger...
There are still naive moviegoers like myself who feel a shiver run up our spines when the music swells and a troup of horses charge over a hill. Hollywood in general, and Ivanhoe in particular, will thrive on people like us. Changing from spectacle to spectacle, Ivanhoe entertains even though it leaves large vacuums of dialogue and acting in its wake...
Wharton decided that koupreys are about the toughest cattle alive. For half the year they contend with drought; for the other half, with monsoon rains. But they thrive better than domesticated breeds. He suspects that some of man's earliest cattle (i.e., the long-tailed, lyre-horned cows of Egypt) may have descended from the kouprey or a close relative. When Cambodia is deloused of Communists, he hopes to bring out red kouprey calves as the start of new strains of hardy cattle for hot climates...
...Ninety-Mile Desert was a painful puzzle to Australia's early settlers. Its rainfall was 20 inches a year, which is good enough for dry Australia, and plenty for many crops. But somehow, nothing desirable grew there. Even sheep did not thrive: they got strange diseases, and their wool turned to coarse hair...
...beak? Modern Japanese are not sure. One opinion is that Karura is patterned after the Indian bird-god. Garuda, who used to thrive on serpents. Another version: Karura broke some of Buddha's precepts and got his face altered in punishment. The 420,000 Japanese who trooped past him were hardly bothered by historical uncertainties; Karura, in all his fierce, proud finery, was simply a pleasure to look...