Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greg as the expression "so close but so far" took on new meanings. Still rather inebriated, we left right after that. All the way home Greg cried. All the way home he stopped abruptly every few steps. "Fucking Stoeckel, fucking Jimmy Stoeckel." He must have seen four $100 bills sprout wings and fly down the Charles with the gulls...
...independence ceremony could not keep the blush of April's revolution, when carnations had seemed to sprout from every buttonhole, from fading. The other promises of the revolution-like an end to economic stagnation and establishment of a democratic government after a half-century of dictatorship-have not begun to be realized...
...project's general decline and the Tower's particular misery remain a mystery. The closing of the tower, while motels sprout near the Square, would be a chilling but not unique demonstration of urban failure...
That powerful "nothingness," says Updike, is named the devil-and the devil pervades man's experience. "These grand ghosts did not arise from a vacuum; they grow (and if pruned back will sprout again) from the deep exigencies and paradoxes of the human condition. We know that we will live, and know that we will die. We love the creation that upholds us and sense that it is good; yet pain and plague and destruction are everywhere...
With a perversity hardly matched since Shakespeare put an ass's head on Bottom, Miss Murdoch has made a career out of bewitching into beastliness the discreetly charming British bourgeoisie. In her neo-Gothic tales, subtle spells fill the air until respectable Londoners seem to sprout horns under their bowlers, rolled umbrellas (one would swear) resemble snakes, and good gray Anglican church towers turn primitive, not to say phallic...