Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child was the first born in the big D.P. camp in Seoul, Korea, and the parents called it Mi Hua (Little Flower) in honor of UNRRA's tough and kind-hearted boss. But 7,000 miles away, in Washington, Little Flower LaGuardia last week faced more headaches than honors...
Even in countries like Yugoslavia, where UNRRA's local administration is relatively efficient, there were headaches for the Little Flower. The New York Post's Tom Healy wrote last week: "UNRRA has developed into a political instrument of great importance in the hands of Marshal Tito and his seven fellow Communists who rule Yugoslavia. . . . The people . . . seem unaware that the food which has kept them alive this year has come free from nations far away . . . from strongholds of democracy and capitalism. . . . Sometimes the food [is] displayed under beribboned pictures of Tito and Stalin. . . . Russia sends no food...
Since popular discontent forced Dictator Getulio Vargas to permit free politicking last year, long-undercover Communism had bloomed like a jungle flower. In last winter's elections, the Communists had rallied 600,000 votes behind a presidential candidate little known three weeks before. One Rio senator was a Communist: Leader Prestes, for the anniversary of whose liberation from prison Communists last month had rounded up the largest rally in Brazilian history. The majority of Brazil's topflight intellectuals-artists, writers, architects-had lined up for Communist membership cards. Communism was so strong in Brazil that there was talk...
...flower painting she brings a technique familiar in photography but seldom attempted on canvas: the dramatic closeup. Like a bee, she explores the innermost recesses of hollyhocks, irises and morning-glories, and manages to extract an almost cloying degree of honey-sweet, cream-smooth satisfaction from them...
...similar trickery, beemen can lure their bees to almost any flower. Red clover, for instance, is not particularly attractive. But if a few bees are fed syrup from a small dish resting on a pile of red clover blossoms, their dances and scent incite other bees to pollenate red clover, increasing its crop of seed...