Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor's Mansion to celebrate his impending victory. Son "Nickey Wickey" O'Daniel sang Old-Fashioned Love in My Heart; Texas Rose sang I Want to Be a Cowboy. On the Governor's lawn 2,500 citizens, including nursing mothers, children and adolescents trampled on flower beds and littered the grass...
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair...
...repeated air raids had wrecked many homes, people still tried to behave as if the nightly trip to shelters was a picnic outing. London reviews were crowded with people who could laugh uproariously at war-flavored jokes. Housewives were still in the mood and the money to shop, and flower stands were loaded with the best and gayest flowers in years. In air-raid shelters in intellectual Bloomsbury, Britons kept alive their ancient, threatened culture by chanting quaint madrigals. Britons were still Britons, but they would not have been human if the strain had made no impression...
...playing sliding tones, get any desired sounds in any desired rhythm. For the present, Percussionist Cage contents himself with "dragons' mouths," wood blocks, rice bowls hit with chopsticks, temple gongs, pipe lengths, secondhand brake drums, baby rattles, maracas, wind glass, thunder sheets, washboards, cowbells, "fin-gersnaps & footstomps," flower pots, güiro, sirens (for the use of which he had to get police permission), claves, police whistles, the jawbone...
...watch fires burned on its cliffs when the world's greatest fleet approached bearing the flower of Spain's Army. That great Armada was worsted in fierce fighting with Effingham's Fleet and practically destroyed by a storm in the North Sea. In 1759 Louis XV's Army waited in Brittany for Admiral Conflans to break the British blockade of Brest, abandoned its plan to invade Britain when Admiral Sir Edward Hawke dispersed the French Fleet at Quiberon Bay. Again in the winter of 1804-05 Napoleon gathered a host of 150,000 men across...