Word: dogwoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that dogwood, how it's fringed with raindrops? That's an effect you can get only on days like this," says Bussewitz, a sprightly man in his early 70s. Buzzy, as he prefers to be called, has studied plants for more than 40 years and has been a volunteer at the arboretum for more than a decade since his retirement...
...spent a year in the Gate City to the South, which was then still known to some as the Dogwood City, around the time it was trying to become the City Too Busy to Hate. That's the way people in Atlanta might think of it, and that's the way I think of it. We share a weakness for slogans. This was at the beginning of the '60s, and I was a reporter covering the civil rights story. Those who traveled the South back then -- reporters or regional auditors or salesmen with the Southeast territory -- came to roost...
Last month, at a disarmament rally in New York City, the brothers prayed for peace while dancing around a newly planted Japanese dogwood tree in Central Park. Their trip had included two other stops, one in New Haven, where they joined in a prayer service in support of a man facing criminal charges in connection with a protest against Trident submarines, the other in Washington, D.C., where they participated in an evening of prayer and music for Salvadoran refugees. "Radical peacemaking," the monks believe, is a natural outgrowth of the Gospel...
Warm-weather fashions draped the mannequins in department-store windows. Spruced-up stadiums awaited the opening ceremonies of the baseball season. Dogwood and azaleas were in bloom, and the calendar insisted that spring was entering its third week and Easter was just days off. But then the winter that would not go away struck again, blasting much of the nation last week with freezing temperatures, blustery winds and snowstorms that would have seemed excessive for February...
...slowly to the Masters tournament. The course at the Augusta National Golf Club has altered little since it was built in 1932, yet it is as demanding in this day of space-age metal clubs as it was in the hickory-shaft past. Even without the blooming azaleas and dogwood that provide what may be the most beautiful setting in all of sport, the Masters would be unequaled as a place to take the measure of the game's old champions and new challengers. It is the only one of golfs Grand Slam foursome annually contested over the same...