Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain 28 miles northwest of Madrid last week assembled the flower of Franco Spain-Cabinet ministers, generals, admirals, all of the nation's four cardinals, 37 of its bishops, six mitered abbots, and the Papal Nuncio. Occasion for this august gathering: the dedication of the Valley of the Fallen, the striking $12 million monument to Spain's Civil War dead that workmen have been hewing out of solid rock since 1941 (TIME color, Jan. 26). By no coincidence, it was also the anniversary of the day in 1939 when the last pockets of Republican resistance collapsed in Madrid...
...Flower Drum Song. A melting-pot musical about Chinese-Americans, routinely but deftly stirred by Rodgers & Hammerstein...
This is the Pirates' year, however, as Branch Rickey's building process, which began eight years ago, will flower this season. The Bucs made a good run at Milwaukee last year, but if they had won, it would have been somewhat of a fluke. Thanks to the key trade this winter that brought to them a catcher who could hit, a steady left-hand starter, and a good third baseman all in exchange for an excellent third baseman, a Pirate victory this year would be no fluke...
...Monica, Calif. "Young husband-to-be just twenty-one, the young wife-to-be not yet eighteen," wrote Frank Lloyd Wright in the split-level prose of his autobiography. "Wedding [1890] on a rainy day. More resembled a funeral. The sentimentality I was learning to dread came into full flower. The heavens weeping out of doors -all weeping indoors." The Wrights were separated in 1910, and divorced some years later. "The young husband found that he had his work cut out for him. The young wife found hers cut out for her. Architecture was my profession. Motherhood became hers. Fair...
...Flower Drum Song. A melting-pot musical about Chinese-Americans, routinely but deftly stirred by Chefs Rodgers & Hammerstein...