Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family and their friends that the power failure does not seem to alter their behavior dramatically. If these people were germs on one of those glass plates used in general-science courses, they would be the kind that mad Army biologists yearn to drop on Russia. But they move, thrive and incontestably have life. Whether this is a good thing or not is a judgment the author does not make...
...past year there were at least 20 known battles between tribes fighting with spears, clubs, bows and arrows in disputes over land, pigs and women, in approximately that order. A lingering appetite for cannibalism is suspected in the remote interior where Stone Age conditions prevail Witch doctors still thrive and sorcery is practiced. The cargo cults, a weird blend of religious faith and economic frustration, claim 60,000 members. They believe that they can acquire such desirable Western luxuries as radios and canned beer by practicing certain rites like assembling on mountaintops, where they construct mock airplanes and await...
...their fantasy, the tales thrive on very real love, hate, envy, greed, murder and even cannibalism. As Translator Segal notes, nowhere in all the Grimm fairy tales can one find a single fairy. The term seems to have been popularized in England about the time when the Grimm stories were being translated and prettified for children. Take Snow White, for example: in most bowdlerized versions, the wicked stepmother orders the huntsman to bring back Snow White's heart. In the original folk story, it is her lungs and liver that the bad lady wants-so that...
Undoubtedly, a lot of what even the most academic applicants look for in the honors majors is small size, and if Soc Stud were the size of Soc Rel, its attractiveness undoubtedly would be reduced. Opening them would destroy the atmosphere in which they thrive, say proponents of limited size...
Developers, absentee landlords, the universities, the old-time politicians with their banking and real estate businesses, all thrive in Cambridge. They exploit the weakness of city government. They do so at the expense of the residents of the city...