Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebellion was now at an end, but a British district officer, passing through Nandi territory recently, noted that the tribesmen were still making arrows. The witch doctor was arrested. As he was hauled to jail, mooning all the while over a withered setiot blossom (the symbol of virility among the Nandi), the remaining Nandi meekly and with some relief surrendered their stock of nearly 15,000 newly made bows and arrows. "We had to do as the witch doctor said," one explained apologetically, "otherwise he would have bewitched our children...
...Martin Lubbock and bringing the Cabinet divorce rate to three times the national average. The story got front-page play, but no voice was raised to suggest that divorce would blight what is left of Lloyd's political career, which, observed Daily Express Columnist George Gale, "will blossom or perish according to his abilities and not according to his private life. Private disaster is at last private...
Perhaps his strongest political asset is a highly photogenic family of four boys and a girl, who go to St. James Protestant Episcopal Church in Bernardsville in the dark green, blue and white kilts of clan Forbes. Their job: to offset the orange-blossom blush worn by handsome, greying Democratic Governor Robert B. (for Baumle) Meyner, 48, since he married Adlai Stevenson's distant relative by marriage, Helen Stevenson, last January. But Forbes has other ammunition to fire at Meyner. During the primary he sighted over the head of perennial G.O.P. candidate Wayne Dumont Jr., blasted Meyner...
Through E.B.F., millions of students have been able to witness such wonders as the growth of a plant from seed to blossom in a matter of minutes. They have seen the human heart in action, been whisked through the ages of history. To make one film on hearing, the E.B.F. staff worked 18 months, used the ears of three corpses to show the ear's inner workings. Each script gets a thorough examination by experts, but it is primarily up to producer and photographer to present the facts with imagination...
...escort young lovers through the delicate orthodoxy of England's Edwardian era, G.R.M. Devereux synthesized in Lover's Dictionary a comprehensive language of flowers. Each blossom wafted a specific message (dandelions: "go"), and the manner of handing it to the lady became part of the unspoken word. A flower inclined to his right said, "I love you," to his left, "Thou art radiant with beauty...