Word: azaleas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mobile. Among those greeting Bush at the airport is a bevy of Azalea Trail maids in phosphorescent Scarlett O'Hara crinolines. One reporter wonders whether the Secret Service has checked under the hoopskirts: "You could hide a Stinger missile in there." Bruce Zanca, a Bush advanceman, uses a ramp phone resting on the runway to call Air Force Two. The telephone is one of the 101 special phone lines that will be installed for the Bush entourage that day at Government expense...
...only heard of one of them before, that Stacy Staysak or somethin'. * Someone told me she played in Farmer's Daughter. Celebrities are not unheard of here. Every year, Wilmington has an Azalea Parade, and one year they had Buddy Ebsen. He was on Beverly Hillbillies. I loved that program...
...Fujita flew two raids over Brookings in a tiny seaplane, dropping incendiary bombs in an unsuccessful effort to ignite the surrounding thick forests. Twenty years later, the Brookings Junior Chamber of Commerce invited Fujita, by then a prospering businessman, to serve as honorary grand marshal of the town's azalea festival. Fujita was so moved by the gesture that he vowed to reciprocate by having local youngsters visit Japan, but his business subsequently failed, leaving him penniless. The industrious Fujita spent more than two decades saving the roughly $10,000 that will pay the students' travel costs. "After they have...
Thousands of happy games followed. Occasionally, Roach would be held to a draw, but he was never beaten. Now and again he would bring out eight or nine more checkerboards and play all his opponents at once, never losing. Whole tour buses, making the Southern azalea-magnolia-plantation circuit, were made to wait while their drivers lost to Double-Trouble Roach. And then, early last fall, the Roach gas station and fruit stand had the rug pulled out from under them--by the highway department, of all things...
Esther Koch Azalea...