Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean war has been going on for two years (as of June 25), the truce talks for a year (as of July 10). The war has pinned down the flower of the U.S. fighting forces and is costing $5 billion a year. Only one-tenth of a nation (the fighting men, their families and friends) pay much attention...
...boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r"; "The paths of glory lead but to the grave"; "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen"; "Some mute inglorious Milton"; "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife"; "The noiseless tenor of their...
...Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women in a stockade on another island, and kept them busy husking coconuts from dawn to dusk...
...Quay (a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in the Civil War) who brought the alliance between the Republican Party and business interests to its fullest flower. A colleague said that Quay had "a consummate skill in calculating political quantities." He also had a profound Pennsylvania contempt for political hypocrisy. Quay and the Pennsylvania Railroad sent carloads of men into doubtful Indiana to vote for Harrison against Cleveland. When Harrison said: "Providence has given us the victory," Quay snarled: "Think of the man. He ought to know Providence had nothing to do with...
...meeting had just begun when 20 hoodlums broke into the banquet room, upset tables, heaved chairs and flower pots, and beat up two elderly scholars. On their heels came Rhee's uniformed police, who made a great show of arresting four of the rioters, but also arrested at least one of the rioters' victims. "We don't know who they are," said Rhee's propaganda directors blandly of the troublemaking goon squad. But an American who saw the show recognized one of the gang's leaders as a member of the rough, tough police force...