Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside of maple leaves and football, the best thing about autumn is that you don't have to worry about hay fever any more. Especially if you live in Nebraska, where goldenrod is the state flower. There aren't many maples in Nebraska, and there wasn't much big-time football - give or take a season or so - until a paunchy, puffy-eyed Irish man named Bob Devaney took over as head coach at the University of Nebraska...
...clear, and behind the face the clouds of heaven rolled majestically across the world." A blaze of sunlight sparkles on the water. "He entered the sun's sparkle and drank. Mineral and cold as a prairie river, the water bathed his heart. He felt himself open like a flower." That night he built an enormous fire to inform the universe that he was there, to announce anew the Creation...
There were two frisbies, gifts from some admirers, that lay on a table. One had a flower and Miss Travers' name painted on it. She had her typewriter out, along with a dictaphone. But there was little else. The strong-fibered, slightly aging woman who had greeted me at the door was obviously doing some writing--it was impossible to guess what--and she wasn't about to tell anyone...
...force that through the green fuse drives the flower...
Another is a story of how Frances Marshal Lyautey, anxious to plant a tree, was told by his gardener that there was no hurry-it would not flower for 100 years. "In that case," said the marshal, "plant it this afternoon." Kennedy, concludes Sorensen, "believed in planting trees this afternoon...