Word: daffodil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inconsequential playoff game in one of thousands of Little Leagues can't compare with winning the World Series. Or can it? For Alex, Ari, Billy, Bo, Chaz, Frankie, Jeff, Jon, Joe, Mark, Sam and Zach, it can. One big yellow flower bloomed in the outfield that day. Daisy? Daffodil? It certainly wasn't a dandelion. Let's hope it's a perennial, even if only in their memory...
...shining in an azure sky, mockingbirds are chirping in the snow-white blossoms of the pear trees, and the bees are buzzing from one glorious daffodil to another. It is early March, the middle of Lent, and Catholics all over the world are immersed in contemplation and penance over the passion and suffering of Christ. But just outside the chapel where David Burton is teaching a class for new Catholic initiates, on the green grounds of the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville, Tennessee, the season seems intent on fast-forwarding beyond late winter and penance right into renewal...
...Daffodil Tyminski, a paralegal for the defensein LaMacchia's case, said that the MIT student waspleased with the case's outcome...
...begins with a personal statement from O'Riordan, a genial midtempo song called Ode to My Family. "We were raised/ to see life as fun and take it if we can," she sings. The album overflows with honeyed pop melodies, in particular the introspective Twenty-One and the aching Daffodil Lament. On the latter, O'Riordan shows off her voice, yelping one moment, going supple and suggestive the next, and then suddenly becoming unnervingly direct: "I have decided to leave you forever/I have decided to start things from here...