Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flower Beneath the Foot
...home town, a crowd of 5,000 paraded through the town crying "Long Live Our Maharani," paused outside Vyas' house to shout insults; elsewhere, village poets hymned the maharani. She is grimly determined to win, but at the moment her major campaign concern is the garlands and flower petals constantly tossed at her by enthusiastic supporters. Explains she: "I've got terrible hay fever...
Despite the tropical heat, the Zinacantecos drink little water while working. If the men found small purple flowers growing, they might pick one and suck its bitter stem. The juice of the flower helps to allay thirst. But otherwise, the walapoho suffers the fate of any other weed, tumbled over by the hoes into the black earth. Work ended around four in the afternoon: water had to be hauled, and the mules taken care of. One of the men might go hunting with an old muzzle-loading shotgun while others looked for mushrooms...
...written his political obituaries, New York City's Republican Mayoralty Candidate Louis Lefkowitz refused to play dead. Last week, with the Nov. 7 election against Democratic Incumbent Robert Wagner drawing near, Lefkowitz tirelessly continued to stump the city's five boroughs, pleaded his case before doctors and flower merchants, garment makers and university professors...
...after another she might count her prayers exactly." In the 12th century, the prayer now known as the Hail Mary* came into general use, and the beads began to be associated with the Virgin and take on something like their present form. The rose is Mary's flower, and the beads took their present name from the Latin rosarius: a garland of roses...