Word: clovers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...green to the boys of the brigade has gone to Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. This year was no exception. To the stirring strains of the regimental band's bag pipes, fifes and drums, the Queen Mum presented her troops with fresh sprigs of three-leaf clover, which they stuck into the braiding of their caps. Then the commanding officer cried, "Three cheers for the Queen Mother!" whereupon there was a rousing "Hip, hip, hooray!" As the band struck up the chords of the St. Patrick's Day march and the men filed past their royal chief, Irish eyes...
...suicide in 1885 of Adams' mordantly witty wife Clover left him lost in darkness. "Fate at last has smashed the life out of me," he wrote to a friend, "but for twelve years I had everything I most wanted on earth." He labored on to complete the nine volumes of his excellent history of the Jefferson years, then gave a verdict on his own life by burning all the diaries he had kept since college. "In the midst of gloom and depression I have come to the last page of my history," he wrote...
...understandably peeved to see Manager Joe Torre, fired only last year, thriving with the Braves, and General Manager Joe McDonald, forced out the year before, frolicking with the St. Louis Cardinals, there seems to be little animosity now even for winners. Gene Autry bought the Angels' way into clover this year as surely as any owner ever did. But the cowboy has shown a grace by comparison that makes even wealth forgivable. "Oh, well," Autry comforted Reggie Jackson when Reggie slumped in September. "I made some pretty bad westerns too." Now that's the way to take...
...include traditional notables like hot toddy, hot lemonade, chicken broth, regional potions like the South's horehound and pine-needle tea, and ethnic preparations featuring ingredients like honey, garlic and cayenne. Faith is widespread in the anticold potency of herbs like eucalyptus, mullein leaves, bloodroot and red clover. California Herb Specialist Michael Tierra commends a concoction of honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and licorice...
Streams are turned into storm sewers. An expressway is hacked through the landscape. Then a clover leaf, then a regional shopping center, then office buildings, then high-rise apartments. In this way, the bits and pieces of a city are splattered across the landscape. By this irrational process, non-communities are born, formless places without order, beauty or reason, with no visible respect for either people or the land...