Word: daffodil
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...robe. He had walked to New York in the Boston to Washington peace march which left here March 25 and is scheduled to arrive at the Pentagon May 8. "We are going to launch the yellow submarine," he explained. Many young people wore buttons with the yellow submarine sprouting daffodils out its periscope. It is becoming a symbol of the youth peace movement. "Peace with Beatles power" was a popular slogan. And everyone in the meadow clutched a yellow daffodil...
Afterwards, a twelve-year-old girl, clutching a daffodil, approached him. "Excuse me, Sir. You just said women and children get killed in Vietnam. What freedom do they get?" she asked...
...Daffodil. By last week, with both Blow-Up and Georgy Girl making boffo box office, the wave of acclaim had temporarily deposited both Redgrave girls in the U.S. Lynn was in Manhattan playing a dippy deb and bringing down the house night after night in the funniest show on Broadway: Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy. Vanessa was in Hollywood, playing Queen Guinevere in her first cinemammoth: a $17 million movie version of Broadway's Camelot, in which she sings in a musky mezzo and looks like a rain-washed daffodil in a fire-green Sussex meadow. On April 10, they...
More seductive to the judges, though, was Marie Chantal la Charmante, 17, who paraded across the stage in a black dress and a rakishly cocked, daffodil-yellow boater while a 22-man band, consisting largely of electric guitars and tom-toms, shrilled maniacally. La Charmante won handily, thus enhancing a future few American beauty queens could or would hope to have. For she, like the rest of the contestants, is a femme libre (literally "free woman") -one of a select crowd of Congolese hostesses who play a key role in official life as semi-wives...
...before, and the visiting queen stifled a smile to affect fitting bereavement. Most fawned-over fauna on the landscape, however, was John F. Kennedy Jr., 1½, who sprang up in his perambulator to pay court to the dazzling empress, but adamantly said, "No" when she proffered a daffodil...