Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fleas, which, according to Caen, "bite only tourists and newcomers" because the natives are "so full of garlic." At times, Garlic Lover Caen sounds as if he had distilled his high-calorie prose from the Reader's Digest's Picturesque Speech Department. Sample: "The sidewalk flower stands exuding such clouds of heavy perfume that their owners should be arrested for fragrancy...
Lorjou's Flower Vase on Red Background...
...this attitude extends beyond the polls. In all of its essayings into undergraduate life there is a failure to ask why. Even in the mediocre best of the lot, an article on religion at Harvard, the Yearbook holds itself to a straight reporting job, never allowing the fact to flower into truth. As a result, its record of the year tends to be a dreary list of things that occurred, without any of the spice or life which would make one want to remember them...
Typically, in the industrial city of Nowo Huta, originally planned as a model Socialist town without a house of worship, the government has now permitted a church to be begun. Everywhere the monotony of dusty village life is once again relieved by bright processions and flower-banked shrines on religious holidays. "It's good for the heart as well as the soul," said a young peasant woman near Lowicz last week, winding a chain of paper roses around a huge roadside cross. A fortnight ago, at the annual renewal of national vows to the Madonna of Czestochowa...
...specimens include cross-sections of the plants, with all the details of the fine internal anatomy of the flower worked in threads and sheets of glass...