Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loved One) Waugh showed up as honor guest at a London literary luncheon bearing an elegantly Victorian, 2-ft.-long ear trumpet. Waugh, not widely known to be hard of hearing, waggled his antique radar about happily while chatting with table companions, clowned his listening gear with a flourish when an old enemy, Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge rose to speak, crowed later: "I did not listen to a word he said. I do not like that man. We met once in Africa...
...give some of his winnings to the N.A.A.C.P. Professor Morton B. King Jr., for 20 years chairman of the sociology department, resigned in protest, charging that the university "was no longer able to defend the freedom of thought, inquiry and speech which is essential for higher education to flourish." Instead of taking King's resignation as a warning that other professors might follow suit, the state house of representatives formally denounced him. urged all state campuses to step up their guard against such "subversive influences...
...Prince Albert coat of Confederate grey, whose platform was simple: "I am a hard-shell Baptist in religion. I believe in foot-washing, saving your seed potatoes and paying your honest debts." Invective .ran high in Arkansas politics, and little John McClellan had no way of telling the campaign flourish from the mortal insult. He took everything with deadly seriousness, spent sleepless nights after his heroes were attacked, blazingly denounced Jeff's enemies to audiences of two or three farmboys. Even Ike McClellan says: "I should have held off until John was a little older and could understand that...
...Actress Swanson's merits as a performer or the Hollywood morals of her heyday as if they were burning issues. For all practical purposes, the Ku Klux Klan is just as dated, but Wallace produced its Imperial Wizard Eldon L. Edwards in a flurry of bedsheets and a flourish of portentous announcements. Edwards, a tongue-tied Atlanta paint sprayer, was a sitting duck for Wallace's speechifying, loaded questions. He managed to emit a few typical noises; e.g., the Bible teaches segregation (though he could not quote a supporting text). But the K.K.K., long discredited in the South...
...visual arts are to assume their rightful place in the undergraduate curriculum, the department might well heed President Pusey's words: "The time has come for a new sense of direction and renewed purpose if the study of art at Harvard is to flourish in the coming year...