Word: cactus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every day she went down to the monolith in the cactus grove. Wiser now, she wore only a wrapper and sandals, so that in an instant she was naked to the sun. (page...
Every day she went down to the cypress tree, among the cactus grove ... She was wiser and subtler now, wearing only a dove-grey wrapper, and sandals. So that in an instant ... she was naked to the sun. (page...
...Beethoven symphony. At curtain call La Duncan, scarcely winded, characteristically urged her exhausted audience to go right out and run barefoot through the hills. The little girl promptly took off her shoes and tried -to the exasperation of her mother, who spent several hours tweezing out the cactus spines...
...their trailer to the end of a road, then trudged miles across rugged hills and gullies, often in below-zero weather, mapping the terrain. As rodman of the surveying team, Mrs. Ziegler would hold the 4-in.-wide, 16-ft. surveying rod where Ziegler directed, was often upended into cactus plants by the wind. "It was hard work," says Ziegler, "but it was beautiful. There were many trout streams, and Isabella is one of the finest dry-fly fishermen anywhere. Once in two casts she landed six trout, using three dry flies on one leader...
Under People in TIME of Sept. 24, you speak of the delicate mauve orchid christened Marshal Stalin, now renamed General George Patton. So that the realm of botany be graced with Stalin's name, why not rechristen the barrel cactus (I hope you never sit on one) Marshal Stalin...