Word: dogwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northeast, in particular, suffered from the vernal cold snap that oldtimers call "dogwood winter." New York City shivered through its coldest spring in 50 years, and May seemed to disappear altogether, with temperatures averaging 7.2° below normal. Thousands of northbound scarlet tanagers and other birds-whose migratory urge is regulated by the lengthening of the days rather than the rising of the mercury-starved to death for lack of caterpillars, which hatched three weeks late...
...many areas, the dogwood winter may extend right into summer. In the Northeast, weathermen predict a colder, wetter June than usual, and at the U.S. Weather Bureau's Extended Forecast Division, meteorologists glumly note that cold springs are frequently followed by cool summers. Though beach-wear sales are lagging in Eastern stores, many expect rainwear volume to set a record...
There was nothing wrong with the weather in Atlanta-at least until the north wind blew. A crowd of 150,000 turned out to cheer the Atlanta (formerly Milwaukee) Braves as they paraded down Peachtree Street in the company of the Dogwood Festival queen, Mrs. Atlanta, the Queen of Posture, and a whole hutchful of night club bunnies-blinking in the unaccustomed sunshine. It was still 70° at 8 p.m., and 50,761 excited fans jammed the city's new $18 million stadium to watch the Braves take on the Pittsburgh Pirates in the season's first...
...last week attracted some 300,000 flower lovers, who paraded through the Coliseum for the first, if fleeting, glimpse of spring. More than ever, it was a strange hybrid of beauty and banality, a midsummer's daydream constantly interrupted by nightmares. Lush gardens with brooks and splitlog benches, dogwood trees and primrose bushes delighted the enchanted while only a whiff away peddlers hawked scented sachets and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The New York Botanical Garden's 500-ft. tropical rain garden, adorned with a climbing cissus vine and rock pool, was back to back with Woolworth's counter...
...from garden-club la dies, Sunday drivers, bird watchers, country editors, city mayors, and all manner of green-thumb lobbyists. Residents of Wayland, Mass., held an art show to dramatize the need for cleaning up the town dump. Missouri's Governor Warren Hearnes offered prizes for the best dogwood-redbud plantings in a statewide prettification program...