Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...died 51 years ago today--on Halloween in 1926. It was only fitting that the Mysteriarch, as he was known, chose All Hallows Eve to escape from this life: dying on this day was Houdini's last publicity stunt, and one of his best. Always exit with a flourish, as the show biz types...
Like his competitors, Taoka gained his donhood by organizing dock workers and setting up legitimate businesses, behind which flourish such illegal activities as gambling, prostitution and extortion. His estimated net revenues last year: $10 million. But Taoka, who is suffering from a heart condition, is no longer strong enough to prevent his fiery young lieutenants from trying to expand Yamaguchi-gumi power into territories held by rival yakuza. As the suspected aggressors in the internecine gangland warfare, Tao-ka's organization has been selected by police as their primary target in the cleanup. Says Seitaro Asanuma, director general...
...fact it may be years before southern Lebanon is again an area where fields can flourish and people can go about their daily lives without looking up and seeing artillery on the stony ridges around them. Already, though, a few people are going back to look over their houses-or what is left of them. They are not sure they will stay, but, if the weather permits, they will let their children swim in the Litani River, just as they used to in better days...
...Wetering's trio are quirky, but compassionate, peaceable men. Even his yakusa are complex people who are neither James Bond cartoons nor clinical studies in sadism. This series will probably flourish not because of ingenious plots but because the characters are good enough to carry a conventional novel...
California has long employed all manner of drought technology, which enables its farms to flourish. It has built a strong $10 billion system of dams, canals, reservoirs and other tributaries. More important, it has pioneered in new agritech-nologies that carefully ration water. Many California farms use irrigation-scheduling programs, which parcel out the least amount of water necessary to produce optimum yields. So-called SWAP technicians, who rely on computers to analyze soil, water, atmosphere and plant conditions weekly or semiweekly, can tell a farmer how much moisture to use for up to 60 days...