Word: budded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seat of the important Buddhist sect which bears its name, McNamara and Khanh set off on foot for the shrine which once was home of the Hoa Hao sect's late founder. Standing in its silk-bedecked interior, McNamara placed both hands before his chest in the Bud dhist attitude of prayer and bowed. Afterward, the visitors stood beaming as Khanh presented a U.S.-made hearing aid to the founder's mother, a partly deaf octogenarian who still lives on the place; the old woman seemed baffled but appreciative...
...swing through California, the President played host to 70-odd Congressmen and their wives at a White House party (see following story). Next day he swore in the St. Louis Cardinals' retired star Stan Musial as director of his Physical Fitness Program to succeed former Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who aims to run for the Senate on the G.O.P. ticket in Oklahoma. "Stan the Man" looked around the crowded Cabinet Room with a broad grin, cracked: "If I'd known I had so many friends in Washington, I might have run for office." Missouri's Senator Stuart...
...incredible, indubitable, indisputable mystery, life's history, in renaissance. Twig-twirling, bud-curling flora recommence their reproductive cycles. Birds are winging, children singing, men malingering. Chlorophyll fills the hill. Gauzy moths froth their troths. Saps stir...
...Oriental Garden. Monk surveys these sad facts with some bitterness. "I don't have any musician friends," he says. "I was friends to lots of musicians, but looks like they weren't friends to me." He sometimes makes quiet and kindly gestures?such as sending some money to Bud Powell, caged in a tuberculosis sanatorium outside Paris?but his words are hard. "All you're supposed to do is lay down the sounds and let the people pick up on them," he says...
This grotesque tale of a happy marriage has the unsettling effect on a reader of a stop-motion film, in which otherwise familiar flowers bud, blossom and decay in a few shallow breaths of a viewer's time...