Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Rutherford, NJ. plant, and soon afterward he had his first idea for a toy. One of Strauss's products was a toy horn that bleated "Mamma, Papa." Marx amplified the sound effects, redesigned the horn to resemble a carnation and brought it out as a paper lapel flower that doubled as a noisemaker at parties...
...India he has ranged from Bareilly and Srinagar down to Pondicherry and Tanjore, keeping an old pro's eye, cocked and wide, on the mysterious ways of the land - and on the politics of Prime Minister Nehru. At his New Delhi home, sacred cows browse in the flower beds ; snake charmers with their cobras, fortunetellers and holy men with begging bowls crowd the veranda, push in on him. "I feel them at my shoulder as I work," says Campbell...
With the ovation of India's legislators ringing in their ears, the two Soviet leaders ventured jovially into the countryside. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and another aide stayed behind to talk economic deals. Bedizened with flower garlands, they sloshed through fruit-juice and colored-water toasts; they kissed babies, rode gingerly atop lumbering elephants, released white doves, clowned in beaded hats and white Gandhi caps, allowed vermilion paste to be smeared across their proletarian foreheads, sat glumly with Nehru while they were made honorary Boy Scouts. They politely disregarded Neutralist Nehru's insistence that India is with...
...knows whether impetuous Sergo Ordzhonikidze got a chance to raise hell in the Politburo, but he died shortly thereafter. In February 1937 he was buried with great pomp in the Kremlin wall, his flower-decked bier borne by Stalin. Molotov, Voroshilov and other top commissars. It was cautiously given out that he had died of heart failure, but rumor has consistently said since that he was murdered. In Russia his name became symbolic of the wreckage done to Soviet economy by Stalin and his gang in their struggle for power. Last week the Soviet government (run by Stalin...
...flower the pillow