Search Details

Word: azaleas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Some of them," he said, "honestly couldn't tell an azalea from...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Critics Hit Dumbarton Oaks Expansion | 4/6/1976 | See Source »

...azalea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 22, 1976 | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

That's an azalea, or I'm not from Decatur. Why, there's nothing "lily" about it. Yes, sir, I'd know an azalea if it was dressed in a clown suit, and an azalea is just what you've got under that CALLA LILY caption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 22, 1976 | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...bright orange and blue blossom of the bird-of-paradise plant sways gently in the breeze. Moistened by a wintry rain, the leaves of an azalea shed pearls of water. Except for the tile mosaic of a skull that lies in their midst, the cluster of plants looks like just another pretty California backyard garden. In fact, the attractive foliage masks the sinister nature of the display. Located in a walled courtyard outside the pediatrics clinic at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, Calif., the garden consists of 20 plants, all of them popular -and poisonous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Deadly Garden | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...AZALEA (entire plant): paralysis of the muscles, including the heart, depression of the central nervous system. Sometimes fatal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Hartman's List of Lethal Foliage | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next