Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City and Los Angeles with STEFFI GRAF. Judging by the third-tier seats she was relegated to at the U.S. Open, the relationship seems to be in its nascent stages, but given the unending opportunities for puns, headline writers, at least, are rooting for the couple to flourish...
...other place," declared President Clinton, "if somebody comes after innocent civilians and tries to kill them because of their race, their ethnic background or their religion, and it's within our power to stop it, we will stop it." This Clinton Doctrine, proclaimed with such proud moral flourish just three months ago, is already dead. The real Clinton Doctrine is this: We will protect innocent civilians from bullies--but only bullies that don't count geopolitically...
...during the Old Kingdom that Egypt came of age as a civilization. It was also, says Dorothea Arnold, curator in charge of the Met's Egyptian department, the time when art began to flourish. "It was invented and stylized then," she says, "and it stayed that way for 2,000 to 3,000 years. This was a time when the human figure was at the center of art. When people asked, 'Who are we? What is death?' These people came to grips with death by cherishing life, by transforming human figures into stone in order to preserve them forever...
Banning the fastest growing religious group in modern Chinese history may be a risky move for Beijing, but letting it flourish may have been even riskier. That appears to be thinking behind a government decision Thursday to declare the 70-million strong Falun Gong religious cult illegal. The move came as protests continued in Beijing and other major cities against the arrest Wednesday of thousands of members and leaders of the group. "The government fears that Falun Gong, as a nationwide movement with more members than the Communist party, could become a lightning rod for the political frustrations...
...deep down under, I think we all crave our fifteen minutes of fame, wherever and in whatever form they may turn up. The key to these few precious moments in the limelight, it would seem, is to grasp their proximity, hastily prepare as best one can, and proceed to flourish, flaunt, razzle and dazzle with all cameras pointed at you. Often, however, this is the most difficult piece of the task...