Word: unfurl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamberlain had a chance to unfurl his umbrella but once-during a thunderstorm, which Rome wisecrackers said had been ordered by God to show that the rolled umbrella really opened. While he certainly did not scare II Duce with it, on this appeasement trip, at any rate, Mr. Chamberlain was not scared into giving anything away. Nothing good went Italy's way and nothing bad went Britain's. In this way Britain came off with a sort of negative triumph...
After a night and morning of anxious waiting by botanists with 400 spectators flattening their noses against the greenhouse glass, a fleshy spathe began to unfurl from the spadix and spread out in a bell-shaped bloom. The bell was greenish yellow outside, warm maroon inside. At full bloom the circumference of the bell's lip was 12 ft. 10 in. By this time the plant had begun in earnest to emit its characteristic odor-a sickening carrion stench...
...Moscow last week Mr. & Mrs. Davies said they were preparing to sail by ocean liner shortly to Manhattan, then sail back across the Atlantic in their enormous oil-burning yacht Sea Cloud, which can most decoratively unfurl itself into an old-fashioned four-masted bark. The Sea Cloud was the Hussar when Mrs. Davies was Mrs. Edward F. Hutton (TIME, Dec. 23, 1935) and $95,000 duty was paid when it entered the U. S. after having been built at Kiel during blackest years of German depression. Sea Cloud ranks as one of the world's most opulent yachts...