Word: azalea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What offended Pastor Duncan about the flower show was a life-sized tableau depicting Christ praying in the Garden of Gethsemane before his crucifixion. Every 45 minutes, the azalea-banked exhibit, fresh from a two-year run on Atlantic City's Steel Pier, lit up and went into a 15-minute "performance" controlled by an impressive set of electronic equipment behind the scenes. Three minutes and ten seconds after the deep, resonant voice on the sound track began the story of Gethsemane came the cue: "He turned to his disciples and they were sleeping"; at this point the head...
...Southern capital, but often it seems more like a long afternoon spent in a botanical garden. From the very first page, when beautiful Stella Madden catches the delicate odor of spring, the prose thrusts up stalks of dracaena, carnations, ger-beras, tulips, coleuses, yaupon, oleander, jasmine, gladioli, magnolia and azalea. Even the characters come equipped with floral borders: Yancey, a condemned murderer, "clutches his hyacinth-red hair"; beautiful Stella thinks of herself as an or chid, is suspended on "a liana of ecstasy...
...over Augusta, Ga. was clear and blue, the sun was bright, and the wind was brisk and bracing. Azalea and pink dogwood bloomed along the green fairways of the Augusta National Golf Club...
Bright, green, genuine spring warmed the South. Atlanta was abloom with narcissus, forsythia and bridal wreath. Pitchers sweated in baseball training camps from Florida to California. And Mobile held its annual Azalea Trail Parade...
...Jimmy Clark, the P.G.A.'s Azalea Open golf tournament, with a record 16-under-par 272; at Wilmington, N.C. Clark, 30, an unknown pro from Laguna Beach, Calif, had won only $180 this season before hitting the $2,000 Azalea jackpot...