Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answers are not terribly hard to guess. Casey's Shadow rarely disobeys the time-honored rules of its kid-and-colt genre. Yet the movie proves that those strictures, when applied with flourish, can still carry an audience across the finish line. While Casey's Shadow is aimed squarely at eleven-year-olds, it is likely to captivate any grownup whose idea of heaven is to steal a Saturday afternoon and secretly reread Black Beauty or Charlotte...
Finishing with a flourish, Goolagong worked the serve-volley strategy which she had abandoned through the middle of the match to perfection. Evert held off three match points, but with the tenth game knotted at deuce, she netted two consecutive backhands which shot the championship over to Goolagong...
...Bank of America, though the bank was closed. Soon, however, the bank delivered, in a special car, an envelope containing $200,000?shopping money for Saturday. Another Saudi princess recently walked into Giorgio, picked up $30,000 worth of dresses in a couple of hours, then with a flourish gave the owner's wife a gold and diamond pavé bracelet for waiting...
Almost everyone assumed that the statement was only a rhetorical flourish. Despite numerous secret contacts over the years, it had been uniform Arab policy not to deal publicly with Israeli leaders. During the time of the British mandate in Palestine, Arab leaders would never sit at the negotiating table with their Zionist counterparts. After the creation of Israel in 1948, the boycott was even more thorough. At the Arab-Israeli Lausanne conference of 1949, the two sides stayed in separate hotels, never saw one another, and communicated only through couriers. When Lebanon's Charles Malik was president...
...chimera, the griffin, the manticore and the sphinx are familiar fauna that flourish outside traditional biology. Now it appears that unfamiliar flora grow outside of conventional botany. Or so says the protean Leo Lionni, 67, teacher, painter, sculptor, former art director of FORTUNE and author of a dozen delightful children's books. To illustrate, Lionni has literalized Marianne Moore's "imaginary gardens with real toads in them"-and then removed the toads. What remains is a series of never-were "parallel plants," a vegetable kingdom with members rooted beyond the fences of nature and logic...