Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARGENTINA If three square meals and a good education could turn the trick, democracy would flourish in Argentina, South America's best-fed, best-educated nation. But democracy barely survives. Almost every week brings a new crisis and an old question...
...blue jeans-Amsterdam's longhaired nozem* liked to roar around the city's central Dam Square on souped-up motorcycles, scaring tourists, chasing pretty girls and disrupting traffic. Time and again police squads charged gangs of nozem with batons and sabers swinging; the nozem continued to flourish, and nozempie kijken-watching the nozem-became a popular evening pastime in Amsterdam...
...have rebelled against the body's rigid chemical control. Normally, hormones and enzymes work together in a delicate harmony of checks and balances to regulate cell growth. Once the cancerous process begins, it tends to snowball. The abnormal cells consume more than their share of cell foods, can flourish in a victim who is starving, or actually cause him to starve. Like juvenile delinquents, they grab what they want, and never grow up to assume the duties of normal, mature cells. They tend to reproduce early and die young...
Every few years, in early summer, the U.S. is treated to an old, familiar spectacle. With flourish and fanfare, the representatives of the U.S. steel industry's management and labor sit down to negotiate a new wage agreement, working against the steadily approaching threat of a strike deadline. Labor cockily demands a fat wage hike-and management just as cockily turns it down. Eight times since World War II they have fought their suspenseful duel; five times it resulted in strikes, three times in an early agreement. This week the U.S. was up against the old deadline once more...
...midst of a booming technological age, ancient crafts have managed not only to survive, but actually flourish. A prime example is France's centuries-old weaving industry, which was revitalized by a handful of dedicated artists headed by Jean Lurcat and Marcel Gromaire during the grim days of the World War II German occupation. Working in Aubusson close to the looms, and designing sketches in some 50 colors (v. 1,440 tones used by 19th century weavers), modern French tapestry designers have made the old craft into a contemporary medium...