Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...humid temperature yesterday soaring to 89, the hundreds of azaleas at the Arnold Arboretum blossomed out to provide an appropriate setting for nature lovers (left). In addition to the azaleas from china, Korea, Japan, Europe, and parts of North America, more than 500 varieties of Iilacs are now in bloom...
...much enthusiasm, destroying the translucent glazes of a picture surface and reducing it to the artist's bare beginnings. More often, as in the case of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper (TIME, Oct. 4), they succeed in bringing back much of the painting's original bloom and freshness. Their greatest, and rarest, delight lies in discovering new and better pictures beneath the old, as Cellini did in Rome...
...soldier often feels a strange disappointment when he sees his first battlefield. A barn still stands with cattle waiting to be fed ; a tree is green and straight against the sky; hollyhocks are in bloom. Later he realizes what has happened to the people...
...entirely convincing, urge for expiation. Despite its sad undertones, The Breaking Wave is a novel in which the characters chin up to life more often than they gloom up over the accidents of fate. A skilled storyteller, Shute makes his combat scenes exciting and his love-in-bloom scenes tender, peppers both with Hitchcocky suspense. In his 18th novel, Nevil Shute, onetime Royal Navy lieutenant-commander, proves again that he is one of the most expert countermen working literature's snack...
...first step, workmen will soon plant three threes to replace those that were wrecked in last September's hurricane, he said. The trees, two of which will bloom, will be spaced to break up the monotony of the radiating paths in the court. The job, which also includes planting new shrubs, will be completed this spring...