Word: throve
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noodle shops throve on the celebration. Bunting and streamers festooned Taipei. And to avoid the well-wishing crush, Nationalist China's-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went off to his Sun Moon Lake retreat, passed a quiet 72nd birthday...
...Downs. Canada's business and industry made a spotty picture. The big western oil industry throve; deliveries in June stood 13% above the 1956 rate. Capital investment this year should top 1956's record $7.9 billion by some 10%, and brisk retail sales proved that consumers still had money and were willing to spend it. But automobile production was down slightly for the year, and Chrysler of Canada announced that it would operate only one shift a day during the 1958 model year rather than two. Steel production was a little below last year's rate...
Thus, in 1871, an American missionary named Daniel Bliss laid down the credo of the small college he had founded six years before on a hillside outside Beirut. A center of Christian culture in a largely Moslem world, the small college throve and burgeoned, in 1920 became the American University of Beirut, which is today the largest American university outside U.S. territory...
...triumphantly survived "Martian" dryness and cold. The hardiest strains could reproduce during warm spells when the moisture content of their soil was only two-fifths of 1%. When the moisture rose above 1%, as it may during the Martian spring when the icecap melts or evaporates, the bacteria throve...
Chaperoned Breed. When freed of ticks and internal parasites, Wright's eight Xolos throve and multiplied. In cooperation with the Asociación Canofila Mexicana (Mexican Kennel Club), he set up standards for the breed. A genuine Xolo should have no hair except a slight fuzz on the top of the head and the tip of the tail. The naked skin can be any color (dark brown or grey is commonest), but large blotches of pink are undesirable. The ears should stand up straight...