Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many students at Manter Hall suffer from a lack of self-confidence, Schneider feels. "Misfit kinds come here and thrive" as a result of the individual attention which they receive," he explains. Schneider says that those students who don't need the extra attention "would do much better elsewhere...
...city. How I would feel two weeks from now, I cannot say." He suggested that the best way to help New York would be a federal guarantee of city bonds. If Congress decides to act, Burns urged that it do so quickly because "the markets do not thrive on uncertainty...
...difficult to picture a group of people who thrive on crime, stealing and mugging. But these people do exist and they cause other people not to want to be in school with them or live close to them. All the liberal teaching in the world cannot change this very obvious fact...
...first time in at least a decade, Washington has had a summer of reasonable serenity. But a number of people are not sure that they liked it, which may be one of our national problems. In politics, we have produced a generation of thrill seekers, men and women who thrive on disaster. Most of these people-fortunately for the rest of us-found that living with themselves was a big bore and went foraging in Moscow, Peking, Lisbon and Jerusalem. Those left behind in the steamy streets made more sense...
...trees from all over the world, seeking out those that might grow in the acid, stony soil. He brought in evergreens-pines from Austria, Scotland and Norway, Douglas fir from the Pacific Northwest-because they hide the still-furrowed landscape all year round. He planted Chinese chestnuts, which also thrive in otherwise inhospitable earth, and hybrid poplars that grow so quickly "you have to jump back after planting them so that you don't get poked in the eye." Today the farm is thick with healthy trees...