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Word: fiddlehead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...True, depredations have exhausted the family atomic survival kit (May 30). But we're still sardine-scared. It's not the fiddlehead ferns unfolding in Vermont that worry us. It's the faddleheads fiddling along the Potomac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1955 | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...England woods the fiddlehead ferns were unfolding, and blankets of wisteria spread over the houses. Outside Santa Fe, ribbons of green laced the brown adobe on the flatlands, and here and there the full-flowering lilacs formed purple buttons. On riverbanks of the Northwest, wild rhododendrons, spiraling up to 30 feet, were spreading red and pink and white blooms two hands wide. Spring was full-blown in the U.S., and the nation's prevailing mood seemed to be as bright as its blossoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Davy's Time | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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