Word: thriving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city where 200,000 people sleep in the streets at night and an unskilled worker earns a pitiful two rupees (260) a day. India's largest metropolis (pop. 7,900,000), the capital of teeming West Bengal State, is also a place where artists and intellectuals thrive. Not surprisingly, in view of the intense pressures upon them, the all-consuming passion for this gifted and volatile people is politics. Put two Bengalis in a room and inevitably there is a heated political argument...
...less than two years.* Beginning in 1966, Penphil bought 21,380 shares of First Bank & Trust Co. of Boca Raton, Fla., for $332,924. A real estate subsidiary of the Penn Central, Arvida Corp., moved huge deposits into the bank, and as realty development helped the bank to thrive, the value of Penphil's investment grew...
...whites in Wilcox-and seemingly in most of Alabama-seem to thrive on a heavy diet of hatred and racism. There are still lynchings in this county. Within the past two years, a black man has been castrated, a white woman has shot a black male child, and a white doctor who is a member of the KKK has plotted to have the county's black VISTA director assassinated. In Selma (50 miles from here) only a week before I got here, a policeman beat a black man to death on the street...
Only in the present climate could somebody like M.M.-remember when those initials stood for someone lovely?-thrive, and the only compensation is that, by a kind of prosaic justice, the Attorney General got what he deserved: a waspish Mrs. Portnoy whose cracks can be mended only with Silly Putty. Yentas of the world, unite-you've got nothing to lose but your brains...
Yovicsin made a brief speech, thanking many people and expressing the hope that the Harvard football program will continue to thrive. "This is the boys' party," he ended, "and I want to join...