Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the blossoming flowers of May, Harvard's annual crop of water pistols has sprouted. Thousands of guns more colorful than a flower show in full bloom suddenly appeared since spring vacation. Sales are booming. Local stores call Harvard the "Arsenal of the East," and proudly claim part in its newest sport...
...Taylor presented Korea's President Syngman Rhee with a 78th-birthday gift: a brand new jeep with blue leather seats, deep blue hubcaps and two sirens. Extra accessory: a special R.O.K. commander-in-chief license plate -two gold dragons gazing into a hibiscus, Korea's national flower...
...during the Haydn or from pure admiration of her musicianship, it was not yet apparent. But after a roof-raising Beethoven Fifth and a racing William Tell, there was no doubt about Gianella's acceptance. While Albert Hall stood and cheered, she took a bouquet and threw it flower by flower at her audience...
Muffled Tread. In the freezing cold of Monday morning, March 9, the pageant of death was played out to its end. A silent 35,000 massed in the flower-banked vastness of Red Square. Thousands held black-bordered portraits of the dead man. A 750-piece band stood motionless. Tall, grey-coated guardsmen paced silently before the great red and black stone mausoleum Stalin had built for Lenin, and now is to share with him until the government builds a promised new Pantheon for Stalin, Lenin and all the lesser gods of Communism...
From the distance came the sound of funereal music and the muffle of treading feet. Then came the flower bearers from the Hall of Columns, hundreds of them. Soviet generals bore the Generalissimo's medals on red pillows. Next came a lone soldier on a jet black horse. Then eight more black horses pulling a gun carriage. There, framed in red for revolution and black for death, rode the coffin of Joseph Stalin, the dead man himself visible through its glass dome...