Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bluesy beat of his quintet. Bending low over his sax, Rollins, 48, would pause for a fraction of a second and then come up swinging: weaving countermelodies inside and outside the harmonies, loosing flying clusters of arpeggios that left his sax all but smoking, ending with a comic bebop flourish, head thrown back and sax brandished triumphantly...
...train does serve wine, but "it's all twist-top," the steward explains. Smoking is banned in the dining car. Both breakfast servings produce perfectly cooked eggs any-style with a choice of grits and cream gravy, sausage, bacon, hash, broiled ham and, as a post-Atlantan flourish, exemplary French toast. All food is cooked on big old stoves fired by Presto Logs...
Other hospices, like the one at Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital Center, now flourish within existing medical institutions. In fact, at St. Luke's, the hospice patients are not kept in a "death ward," but are scattered throughout the hospital, where they are regularly visited by special doctors, nurses and counselors attached to the hospice program. Members of the regular hospital staff report that watching the way hospice people treat the terminally ill has helped them modify their own behavior. "When a patient knows he's dying," one doctor notes, "you can't just...
...rites of spring. They hide away in dark screening rooms, watch dozens of hours of pilots for new shows, then emerge, red-eyed but exultant, to announce what the American public will see in the fall. Last week both ABC and CBS ended their ceremonies with the traditional flourish of self-congratulatory press releases; NBC was due to announce its schedule this week. This year, however, the ceremony seems more like a rehearsal than the real thing: Fred Silverman, the high priest of programming, has yet to make his entrance, and everybody in TV is waiting for Freddie...
...renovation with a gift of $5 million. The result is both handsome and ingenious. Even a new underground passageway, which left to its own devices would resemble nothing so much as a subway tunnel, will be put to pleasant use: in artificial light, aquarium plants, mushrooms and mosses will flourish...