Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mineral-and-vegetable-like structures, commissioned by fantasy-loving Spanish aristocrats, began to sprout in & around Barcelona. Whether his assignment was a mansion, or apartment house, or a hunting lodge, Gaudi designed it with the same back-to-nature abandon, never passed up an opportunity to ripple or bulge a surface, scallop an edge or stick on a few mushrooming towers. To make sure that his weirdly shaped buildings were appropriately furnished, Gaudi would nev er accept a job unless he was allowed to design everything from beds and tables to lamps and plumbing fixtures...
Most of the AEC men, including commissioners, are deeply concerned about the long-range effect of such secrecy. They realize that in. the blackness, sprinkled with atom bombs, that surrounds their expanding empire, all sorts of unhealthy and startling growths might sprout unobserved. They know well that they hold in their hands the most dread power in the world...
Topperless Tories. In Toryland, where grow mossier mossbacks than among American Republicans or Southern Democrats, there also sprout promising young shoots of a new species, with Winston's beaming approval. Last month handsome Tory M.P. David Eccles, 47, warned the elders of his party: "If the Socialists can successfully identify us with the rich and themselves with the poor, then when the heads are counted, they must win. What sort of party are we? Company directors in top hats with fat checkbooks? What nonsense! There are twelve million Conservative voters. They are easily recognized: the active producers of wealth...
...findings: his tests on 19 of the lotus seeds had proved that they are 1,000 years old, give or take a couple of centuries. This is nothing like 50,000 years, but it makes the seeds the oldest of any species that have yet been known to sprout after such a long sleep...
...recalls Victorian bathroom fixtures. The Emett Railway is driven by elderly gentlemen with droopy mustaches, cobwebs in their ears, and a quiet contempt for the world about them. When the managers of the Festival of Britain were making plans for a London Pleasure Garden in which fun & games might sprout freely, they decided to transfer Emett's gentle caricature of the Machine Age into reality...