Word: florals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Howe is the same "Bashful Basher" from Floral, Sask., who signed a Detroit contract at 16 for $4,000. "I've changed my sense of values since," grins Howe, who at an estimated $30,000 a year is hockey's highest-paid pro. Yet he is still blushingly polite to fans. At a celebrity golf tournament in Ontario, a clubhouse attendant asked him for an autograph to take home to his son. Howe was halfway to Detroit before he remembered the request; abruptly, he drove back to the golf course, sought out the attendant and gave...
...Floral Paratroopers. Touré's disenchantment with Communism reached its height last December, when he traced demonstrations against his government to the Soviet embassy, which apparently felt that he was not cooperative enough. Moscow's ambassador was sent packing, and Touré began mending his fences with pro-Western neighbors...
During a state visit last week, the Ivory Coast's President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, whom Touré once called a "colonialist puppet." got red-carpet treatment, including an honor guard of paratroopers dressed in improbable raspberry-colored silk uniforms with floral patterns. Before Houphouet-Boigny left for home, a pretty Guinean girl serenaded him with a song in the Malinké dialect that, though it no doubt loses something in translation, told of her yearning...
...caressed 18 songs a night, but drew the heartiest oo-la-las when, turned out in top hat, tails-and bare legs-she did a few coltish kicks. A grateful management held her over an extra week, and grateful admirers despoiled acres of rose gardens to pay her floral tribute...
...pussy willows may have been forced, but the enthusiasm was not. Spring had come to New England. Its harbinger: the 91st annual flower show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The place was packed with busloads of garden clubwomen (and a few dedicated men) who stood ogling the floral displays like mourners at a gangster's funeral. The highlight of the show was the formal garden of acacias and fountains from the Great Hill Farm of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stone of Marion. Mass. The gold-blossomed acacia trees, insured with Lloyd's of London...