Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Floyd G. Hoard, 40, solicitor general of northeast Georgia's Piedmont Circuit, a gang-busting state prosecutor elected in 1964 who personally led police on innumerable raids against gambling racketeers, auto thieves and bootleggers, all of whom flourish in his rural district; of injuries from at least six sticks of dynamite wired to his car's ignition; in Jefferson...
Fondling a martini, flaked out on the sofa in his Beverly Hills home, bald, bespectacled Gene Kelly could pass as the aging big star lapsing into the big fadeout. But not so. One flourish from that invisible 100-piece orchestra that always seems to follow him around, and he would undoubtedly slap on his hairpiece and straw hat, pirouette over the coffee table, go tippity-tap-tapping along the poolside, buck and wing it across the volleyball court, and end up with a ten-minute improvisation on the monkey bars...
Whatever its divisions in this centennial year, Canada seems to be reaching out for a fresh vision of itself, a new identity. Canada's strength, the Queen said, "derives from national unity, and it can only be sustained and flourish if that national unity prospers...
...With a flourish of pens and champagne glasses, delegates of 49 non-Communist nations gathered in Geneva's Palais des Nations last week to sign final agreement to the most sweeping tariff reductions in the history of international trade. The meeting climaxed four years of bargaining, sponsored by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in the oft-troubled but ultimately triumphant Kennedy Round negotiations...
Schistosomiasis, or snail fever, afflicts about 200 million people, chiefly in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Caused by parasitic blood flukes, it is found around marshy deltas, sewage-contaminated lakes and irrigation ditches, where the larvae of the worms lodge in snails and flourish. Invading the human body through the skin, the larvae head for the liver, there mature into flukes that migrate to the small veins of the bowel, where the female lays innumerable eggs every day, sometimes for years. Many eggs are swept into the liver and other organs. They cause irritation and scarring in the liver (which...