Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also called a flower shop to find out the price of a corsage, one ostentatious yet subtle enough for a girl to wear at a ball. That was only...
Slowly the dark side emerged. San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the communal temple of flower power, became a seedy slum of strung-out addicts. Heroin sent urban crime soaring as addicts stole to sustain their habits. For many college students, LSD became a bad trip...
...lack of vigilance that these formidable bugs have slipped across the border. The USDA employs 1,000 inspectors at 85 ports of entry nationwide. At J.F.K. ten officials examine as many as 2,000 crates of flowers, vegetables, seeds and cuttings every day and pass any pests they find to an insect identifier, a botanist and a plant pathologist for cataloging. An additional 60 inspectors are assigned to the airport's five international- arrivals areas, where they watch for illegal agricultural material in the bags of passengers filing through Customs. But increased travel and shipping have strained these resources...
...Flower Child...
Besides the flowers set in the ground, Lichten's crews bought about 3500 chrysanthemums for about $6000 to decorate the steps of Widener Library and Memorial Hall. The flower arrangements, by Donald R. Soule, the technical director of the Loeb Drama Center, will change for every convocation...