Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Reserve Board leaned in the opposite direction, convinced that the boom was still picking up speed so fast that it might get out of hand. Last week the Federal Reserve governors decided it was time to put more checks on credit and industrial expansion. With a flourish of his pen FRB Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. okayed, for the fifth time in a year, an increase in the discount rate for eleven of FRB's twelve district banks, thus making it more expensive to borrow money...
...automatic a move as a G.M. gearshift, stepped Albert Bradley, a man little known but easy to know. Bright, twinkling-eyed Al Bradley is a contrast to his great predecessor and good friend. Sloan, a graven-faced Connecticut Yankee, practiced prohibition for years, wears a stickpin, dresses with a flourish, disdains tobacco and sniffs at sports. Bradley is a roly-poly (5 ft. 6 in., 160 Ibs.) Briton who arrived in the U.S. at the age of seven, a casual dresser who often appears in mismatched pants and coat, a keen southpaw golfer and a Scotch drinker...
...intertwining of two processes-the coming of age of a sensitive .girl and the coming of age of an equally sensitive nation-makes a compelling novel. Santha Rama Rau, who writes English (Home to India) with the flourish of conquest, portrays newly freed India through the mind of Indira ("Baba") Goray, daughter (as is Novelist Rau) of a rich and respected Indian politician. The story transpires in Bombay, in the hill country of the north, and among the elaborate Victorian palaces of the Indian rich on the Malabar Hill. Baba and her sophisticated schoolgirl friend turn their wary eyes...
From Dr. Thomas F. Dougherty of the University of Utah came an equally dogmatic though less sweeping theory. Leukemic cells, said Dr. Dougherty, survive and flourish because they can do something that ordinary white blood cells cannot. At the Detroit meeting he had microphotographs to show that leukemic cells can break down hydrocortisone (circulating in the body fluids) into five parts and use one part as a growth stimulator. Fellow experts at Detroit were not convinced. Leukemic cells, they pointed out, are of half a dozen different kinds, and no generalization about them is safe...
...traditional banks of the Charles have become softer and greener, or perhaps it is the atmosphere that has become more relaxing and more colorful. A few authors with typewriters and beards peck and hunt for a minute, then close their eyes and listen for five. Touch-tackle games flourish only to pause when the refreshing pinks and powder-blues float...