Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of long-term urban planning that draws on every available social and sociological discipline ?and imagination. Rouse says that "our cities grow by sheer chance, by accident, by the whim of the private developer and public agencies. A farm is sold and the land begins to sprout houses instead of potatoes. Forests are cut. Valleys are filled...
...even as the statistics and footage of war receded in a blur of swoosh stripes, words began to sprout. A poem, a play, a novel, a memoir might recall what most citizens wished to forget. Some could not. Viet Nam veterans grew older, had children and, as if by some compulsion to pass on their stories, began to talk. In the spring of 1981 the "livingroom war" shows signs of becoming the tape-recorder...
...authors dream of writing a perennial: a book that not only sells well for a season but continues to sprout on bedside tables and school reading lists for years afterward. John Knowles, 54, did just that with his first novel, A Separate Peace (1960). Its story of prep school rivalry and love, set in the early 1940s against a distant but beckoning war, seemed to many a near perfect distillation of adolescence, a nostalgic memoir about an end to innocence and an athlete dying young...
Morris is unsure who his most productive players at the plate will be, but he is certain that fleet centerfielder Ellen "Sprout" Jakovie will "make things happen offensively...
...port of Jidda and the inland capital of Riyadh, each with a population of more than 1 million today have become two of the fastest growing cities in the Middle East. Skyscrapers sprout from the desert landscape. Building cranes bristle across the horizon. Multi-lane highways and ringroads girdle the cities. Old neighborhoods change dramatically in a matter of weeks; new ones spring up overnight. The din of traffic and construction, residents complain, makes it virtually impossible to sleep after...