Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...filed out of Mem Hall through the mob of shouting salesmen Vag smiled in triumph. The years were telling. Never before had his pen retained its flourish to the last of these interminable signatures; never before had he strutted so jauntily through the crowd, shoving Coop agents aside with arm free of the dreaded writers' cramp. He grinned broadly when he remembered the look of dismay which had covered the faces of the members of the War Service committee when he had handed them back their Questionnaire, blank and neatly torn through the middle. He'd done...
...class, too. He had been the first member of the Rainbow Division. He had been the first American Army officer ever to become a Field Marshal. He had been the first American to be a four-star General twice. . . . He had always done his job with a flourish and well. . . . He had been handsome, and divorced, and sometimes rather colorfully dressed, and always full of splendid rhetoric. He had said the Philippines could be held and he had considered himself the man to do it. 'By God,' he had said in Manila, 'it was Destiny that sent...
These are just a sample of the headaches OPA will get when it starts enforcing overall price ceilings and rationing more goods. OPA will get tougher, ride the limit on penalties ($10,000 fine and/or a year in jail). But bootlegging will still flourish, until U.S. excess purchasing power is sopped up at the source: with stiffer taxes, forced savings, credit controls. A fiscal problem needs a fiscal solution, or it is not solved...
...Will vicious black markets spring up? Will untold rackets-unrecorded cash transactions, special surcharges for prompt delivery, etc.-such as are already gaining headway, grow and flourish...
...flooded, they will yield as much as 600 Ib. of catfish, bass or bream, at a much lower cost per acre. So announced the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station last week. Like fields, the ponds must be strewn with commercial fertilizer (100 Ib. per acre), so that aquatic plants will flourish...