Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these words-put-together share successfully what Roberts' opening editorial calls "an attempt to liberate black from the confines of its sound, to bury stereotypes in porcelain blankets, where they belong, to move freedom past the dissolvement of exterior to the cultivation of interior--where differences multiply and thrive...
...evidence. "The cops want to show they're there," said Attorney Morris Goldings, Boston's leading obscenity lawyer, who acquired some 15 new clients in the crackdown. "Every guy knows that one day he is going to be hit." But once busted, few ever suffer conviction. So they thrive...
...These legends are considered important because they describe the common experiences which brought the nation together. They are a good starting point for the development of a modern national culture. Unfortunately, as the legends become more legendary, they become harder to believe. The French are depicted as monsters who thrive on blood sacrifice and their Algerian victims behave more and more like model revolutionaries. It is not surprising that many Algerians, particularly the young who don't clearly remember and who are sick of hearing about it, have developed a certain nostalgia for French culture. These same people are often...
That complacency proved costly. The spraying slowdown allowed the mosquitoes to thrive and multiply again. Quinine, used to treat malaria, is in short supply in some areas; India has not encouraged cultivation of the Cinchona trees from whose bark the drug is obtained (the malaria parasite is showing a rising resistance to the drug chloroquine, a synthetic substitute for quinine). Furthermore, rising petroleum prices have sent the costs of insecticides soaring, placing another burden on the shaky economics of the region. DDT, which cost India about $500 per ton in 1974, now costs...
...official Spanish policy continues on its present course, it will ensure the extinction of one of the oldest cultures in Western Europe. The Basque people were the first to thrive on the peninsula. For centuries they inhabited the Pyrenees as farmers and shepherds and there is evidence that their expertise as shipbuilders--a ship in Columbus' expedition to the New World was built by Basques--preceded that of the Norwegians. But their unique language and customs were never assimilated into the mainstream of Spanish life and the subjugation of this strong and independent people has become a tragedy of Spanish...