Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acre home-base nursery at Newark. N.Y., 1,000-acre and 1, 900-acre rose fields in California and Arizona, plus smaller nurseries in New Jersey and Indiana. Sales this year are headed toward $9,700,000. mostly of roses (by far the most popular U.S. flower) but also including such other J. & P. specialties as delphiniums and mums. In the rose business, in which it annually grosses three times the combined sales of its three nearest rivals, J. & P. also leads its field in adapting to changing times. In 1940 it promoted floribunda roses-many full-sized blooms carried...
Gangly male dancers in khaki and open shirts and lithe young girls in flower prints and leotards lounged in motley array on a dirty yellow staircase. Two carpenters surveyed a set of flimsy stairs for the opening production number, The Prince Is Giving a Ball. "It'll never hold the way it is," said one. "Better put a brace under it." Through ganglia of cables down from a remote eyrie came the cry of an electrician: "The damn lights haven't any numbers on them." A large reflector crashed to the floor. "It's the only...
...escort young lovers through the delicate orthodoxy of England's Edwardian era, G.R.M. Devereux synthesized in Lover's Dictionary a comprehensive language of flowers. Each blossom wafted a specific message (dandelions: "go"), and the manner of handing it to the lady became part of the unspoken word. A flower inclined to his right said, "I love you," to his left, "Thou art radiant with beauty...
Each year some 120,000 mentally retarded children are born in the U.S., the victims of brain injury, prenatal diseases in the mother, or other causes not fully understood. In all the U.S. there are only about 20 centers, such as the pioneering clinic at Manhattan's Flower-Fifth Avenue hospital, where retarded children may get examinations and expert judgment of their possibilities for mental development. Parents fortunate enough to find such a clinic may use its findings to help them decide whether to keep their child at home (as 95% do) or send him to an institution...
...eyed monk," who came to China from India in the 6th century A.D. Imported to Japan in the 12th century, Zen flourished so mightily that it eventually modified most phases of Japanese life, notably in the elaborate code of conduct called Bushido and in the arts of poetry, spinning, flower-arranging, swordplay, archery, and the famed, highly stylized tea ceremony...