Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roads, huts or houses are decorated with festoons of palm and mango leaves. As he passes through wayside villages at dawn, groups of scantily clad, emaciated people shout: "The God who is distributing land has come!" Or, calling him the "son of Gandhi," they touch his feet, offer him flower garlands and fruit, beat drums, and blow bugles...
...were sent off to the sunny Crimea. At West Lake, the Chinese Stakhanovites were lodged in villas that once belonged to wealthy merchants. "These houses," reported one Chinese newspaper, "have stained-glass windows, beds with springs, and silk quilts, tiled bathrooms with flush toilets, facilities for chess and pingpong, flower-bedecked gardens, radios and books. There is always, too, a Thermos bottle on the table filled with boiled water. Such things were never before within reach of workers in China...
Speak Civilly to Blondes. In the mazes of such quandaries, Wodehouse characters frequently wander down mysterious passages of prose: "Like so many young doctors with agreeable manners and frank blue eyes, Ambrose Gussett continued to be an iodoform-scented butterfly flitting from flower to flower but never resting on any individual bloom long enough to run the risk of having to sign on the dotted line." But in the end they generally find their way out, bearing on their lips a word of Wodehouse wisdom...
Insidious Flower. Bishop Berggrav first investigates the nature of the enemy-the diabolic state "which seeks to dominate the entire life of its citizens (perchance under the guise of democratic forms)." He quickly dismisses as superficial the view that modern dictatorship is a historical episode which has sprung up quickly and may as soon be overcome. It is the result of a development, he says, which has been going on for over 400 years. "Little by little, the distinctive mark of the state has come to be that of sheer force-force developed within its own boundaries and, wherever possible...
...felt, might be more fortunate. They began to observe May 5 as Children's Day. Last week battered Seoul celebrated Children's Day with a parade by the police, who marched 600 strong behind a brass band and a huge placard: "Children Are the Nation's Flower...