Word: dogwood
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...Dogwood bloomed white and pink in Rock Creek Park and fishermen were out along the Potomac. Vacationing tourists were everywhere-swarming through the Capitol's dark corridors, leveling their cameras at the White House and the Washington Monument. In this fine spring atmosphere members of the House approved what was probably a peacetime record for one week's check-signing ($24 billion), then headed for home and a ten-day vacation. The Senate, far behind in its work, labored...
...dirt-floored shack in the Ramapo Mountains of New York, 30 miles northwest of Manhattan. Together with his housekeeper, Maggie Gannon, he had passed much of his time avoiding the so-called conveniences of modern society. Last spring, suffering from a heart attack, he waited for the dogwood to bloom; then he died...
They did, until this spring. Then Gil began to feel poorly; his heart was giving out. He took to bed. Day after day he lay there, looking out the cabin's dusty window. "Dogwood's late this year," he kept saying to Maggie. "Don't know as I'll live...
...wrong about that. A spell of hot weather brought the dogwood out, and one day last week, Half Moon was misty with its whiteness. Gil propped himself up to take a good look. "Never seen it prettier, even if it is late," he told Maggie. Then he fell back and closed his eyes for the last time...
When the men came to carry his body down the mountain, Maggie Gannon stood in the doorway of the shack and sobbed. "I looked for the dogwood to pull him through," she said. "I didn't look for it to take...