Word: dogwoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Landscapers said yesterday that the new arrivals include a wide range of trees and shrubs which will bloom within the next several months: red maples, honey locus, madasequoia, swamp white oaks and dogwood magnolias...
...construction, has been built at the edge of the mall, L'Enfant's expanse that is a kind of spacious American myth-yard. There the eye sweeps across the Capitol and Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial, the white marbles softened at this time of year by dogwood and cherry blossoms. The mall bespeaks 18th century Enlightenment come to America, a certain lucidity and ideal. The Holocaust museum is like the 20th century Endarkenment, a dense, evil mystery set down in the New World, an ocean away from where it happened...
...archaeologists, the Iceman's fur quiver is an even rarer prize. "It is the only quiver from the Neolithic period found in the whole world," Egg marvels. Its cargo of feathered arrows marks another first. Carved from viburnum and dogwood branches, a dozen of them were unfinished. But two were primed for shooting -- with flint points and feathers. The feathers had been affixed with a resin-like glue at an angle that would cause spin in flight and help maintain a true course. "It is significant that ballistic principles were known and applied," says Notdurfter. The quiver also held...
Suddenly the silence was broken by the boom of a shotgun. Three police cruisers, their tires squealing, encircled an old faded green station wagon idling at a curb. A pack of fresh-faced young men and women in navy blue polyester jackets dashed around the corner of the Dogwood Inn motel. Each brandished a drawn revolver and a look that said, One false move, and you're dead...