Word: flourished
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...draft boards, rushing to fill their larger quotas, have run through the available supply of eligible, nondeferred single men and practically exhausted the store of married men without children. The result is that the college manpower pool must be tapped. Already many boards, particularly in California where junior colleges flourish, have begun reclassifying college students...
...Western Reserve Law School as "a small school at the threshold of considerable growth change." With only an acting dean, it has lacked leadership for several years, he said. Now, he explained, the university has decided to provide "much-needed resources for the law school to grow, develop, and flourish...
Featherbedding. Then, with only five Senators on the floor, a radiant Ev Dirksen led off the extendalong with a three-hour-20-minute oration. It was a mere trumpet flourish compared to some buncombe spectaculars of the past.* Under Mansfield's gentlemanly ground rules, of course, this was more like featherbedding than filibustering. Dirksen read newspaper editorials, won permission to have sacks of anti-repeal mail brought into the chamber, told Dirksenesque jokes to his colleagues. "I am sure the Senator has heard about the schoolteacher who said, 'Johnny, how do you spell straight?' Johnny replied...
...Kasur is deserted and its inhabitants scattered over the countryside," Rademaekers reported. "Buzzards wheel overhead and settle with a flourish of wings on the swollen carcasses of water buffalo. Dogs prowl through the rubble, stirring up black clouds of flies, as they try to reach putrid human flesh buried beneath the mud bricks and roof tiles of shattered houses. A few Pakistani police patrol the streets to prevent looting but, otherwise, Kasur is a blend of stomach-turning smells and silence...
Along with pride in status and problems of self-government, independence for the 31 nations of black Africa means the emergence of black businessmen. A few flourish on cottage industries, that early stage of every economy; some are the opportunistic agents of the colonial companies that formerly ruled them. Now, however, more of Africa's new businessmen are not only university-trained and experienced but surprisingly sophisticated in trade and finance. In Equatorial Africa, it is no longer unusual to see a $200,000 letter of credit emerging from the folds of a native robe. Nowhere...