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...popped your cherry blossom...
...early 1920s, D.H. Lawrence wrote, "I place my immortality in the dark sap of life, stream of eternal blood. And as for my mind and spirit-this book, for example, all my books-I toss them out like so much transient tree-blossom and foliaged leaves, on to the winds of time." A funny thing happened next. The winds of time caught these words and much of the novel in which they appear and blew them into hiding for roughly 50 years. Between the day he abandoned Mr. Noon in midsentence in 1922 and his death...
...California ever adopts a new state flower," Poet Ernest McGaffey wrote in 1923, "the motor car is the logical blossom for the honor. Whether commercially or socially, whether from the standpoint of business or sport, it is the same, the whole same and nothing but the same. All hail rubber! All hail the automobile...
HELP WANTED. Those welcome words continue to blossom around the U.S. at a pace so fast that even optimistic forecasters are stunned. Most economists expected the jobless rate to fall to about 7% by next year. But what they cautiously predicted has already come to pass. Last week the Labor Department announced that civilian unemployment fell from 7.5% in May to 7.1% in June, its lowest level in more than four years. Since November 1982, when unemployment hit a postwar peak of 10.7%, the brisk economic recovery has created at least 6.5 million jobs. A record 105.7 million Americans...
...wanted a neutral role with the superpowers. (The Soviet news agency TASS was apparently unconvinced; it rapped the Chinese for condoning Reagan's "militarist course.") Reagan did his best to draw the Chinese closer, while acknowledging that he did not expect the "friendship" between the two countries to blossom into an "alliance." Chinese Communists are more to his liking than Soviet ones, Reagan said, because they are not "expansionist" and are willing to experiment with capitalism...