Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flour with a Flourish. The son of a professor of philosophy of law at the University of Moscow, Kistiakowsky (pronounced Kiss-tuh-kof-ski), volunteered for the White Russian army during the Russian civil war, served in the infantry and tank corps. In his two years of service, he almost died of typhus, was caught up by the Red army tide. Escaping, he shot his horse, jumped into the Black Sea and swam to a rescue ship, later made his way to Germany, where he enrolled for study at the University of Berlin in 1921, got his doctorate four years...
...product was an explosive that looked like flour. Dubbed "Aunt Jemima," the powder could be transported as flour or dough, even baked and carried around in cake and cookie form. To prove that it was not toxic, K. assembled skeptical military officials, baked his "Aunt Jemima," finished with a flourish by eating one of his small cakes...
...Harry S. Truman, Buckley observed. Even "perceptive" men like Dean Acheson and Adlai Stevenson "fail to stand firm in judiciously assessing Mr. Truman's personal limitations." Instead, they and others yield to "transcendent considerations" and "continue to undermine the standards of honesty and courage and perception by which nations flourish...
Today everyone is engaged in seeking culture: book and record-of-the-month clubs flourish; people, according to an amazed Time Magazine, actually buy paintings, and Fine Arts 13 is crowded. While the culture boom has been conspicious in the field of the "fine arts" one need not be a sociologist with a Ph.D. or even a reader of the New Yorker to be aware that the popularity and prestige of wall to wall hi-fi sets, automobiles that will fit through your front door, and modern houses without doors lies in their association in the public mind with "modern...
...director puts it, in three days or less, "take what you get." Studio filmed for the most part, they are ironically known in the trade as "four-wall westerns-as big as all indoors." It hardly seems the sort of climate in which creativity could flourish and the legend grow...