Word: dandelion
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...Calystegia sepium, Rnmex obtusijolius and Taraxacum offi-cinale-but was willing to amend the list in any way the Planning Committee desired. Mollified, the county council stamped his application "approved." Apparently none of the committee bureaucrats realized that what Neate proposed to plant was stinging nettles, bindweed, dock and dandelion...
...Down Payment (20th Century-Fox), based on the recent novel by John McPartland, puts itself forward as a fairly serious contribution in a field that only a dozen years ago was nothing but a dandelion patch: the sociology of the packaged community...
...story is a kind of grade-school fable told in the first person by the novel's nine-year-old heroine. The little girl's nickname is Twink. She is also nicknamed Frog, Dandelion, Grasshopper and Mrs. Nijinsky. Twink has a mother, Mama Girl, and a father, Papa Boy. Unfortunately, Mama Girl and Papa Boy are divorced, and Papa Boy lives in Paris with Twink's brother, Peter Bolivia Agriculture. Cause of the split, it seems, is that Mama Girl cannot put her mind to being a Wife Woman when her heart is set on being...
Opposition to Daniel F. Malan's Nationalist government of the Union of South Africa is beginning to scatter like a dandelion gone to seed. The Boer-dominated Nationalist Party has found the stumper for its United Front critics. When voices are raised against a new law to oppress and subdue the African Negroes, the Nationalists simply ask: "Well, do you want equality...
Flagrante Delicto. These were only warmups for the arrival in Paris of General Matthew Ridgway to take over command of the NATO forces from Dwight Eisenhower. On the day of Ridgway's arrival, Paris blossomed like a dandelion field with hostile messages: "Ridgway go home," "Ridgway, the microbial killer." There was a small riot at Aix-en-Province, a bigger one at Bordeaux; the biggest of all was set for Paris' Place de la Republique, despite a specific ban by the Ministry of the Interior...