Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...More than 80% of the country's 5 million people live on tiny farms. Agricultural techniques are generally primitive; in some areas plows and draft animals are unknown, and the unfertile limestone terrain is cultivated with hoes and machetes. When it rains in Haiti, the corn and beans flourish and the people eat. When drought comes, as it has with increasing frequency over the past two decades, crops shrivel in the arid soil and people starve. The Haitian government believes that nearly 300,000 of its citizens now face possible starvation or malnutrition...
...worst-hit section of Haiti is the northwest, a region of rugged, treeless hills where only cactus and mesquite seem to flourish. There were heavy rains in November when, as Baptist Missionary Vance Brown puts it, "the people went crazy planting like they've never planted before. And then we didn't get another sniff of rain for seven months." The winter crop was lost and the spring crop, which normally would be planted in April, was never put in at all. To make matters still worse, a mysterious disease called "yellowing" has killed coconut palms that were...
...bullet wound. He is proud of the scar, and prouder still that he can shrug it off as an accepted part of his lifestyle. "Almost everybody's been shot," smiles the 19-year-old black youth known as "Bartender," a leader of one of the street gangs that flourish in the Los Angeles area...
...best friend, then because he starts to get interested in his bride himself. Via plane and Pullman (this is the 1920s), the trio work their way out to Los Angeles, where they set up housekeeping in a new but already tumble-down garden apartment. The usual jealousies and rivalries flourish and take on fresh coloration, until Oscar and Nicky roll on the kitchen floor, battling furiously with each other, while the excluded bride yells, "Let me alone, let me alone!" After the temporary cessation of hostilities, she announces her decision to leave the whole fortune to charity. So Oscar...
...every dictatorship, only music considered ideologically harmless can flourish. Today, cultural life in Czechoslovakia is apparently the most repressed and sterile in Eastern Europe...