Word: flowers
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Magpie's Hut. Crick and Watson did their work in a shabby shack sandwiched between the imposing academic buildings on the flower-bordered lawns of Cambridge. In one corner of this laboratory (known locally as The Hut), they had a magpie's nest of old books and model molecules strung like mobiles from the ceiling. Debonair and carefully dressed, Crick always managed to look incongruous there; Watson, tieless, rumpled and far more casual in his dress, fitted the picture perfectly. New Zealand-born Wilkins, tall, blond and courtly in the British manner, worked with Dr. Rosalind Franklin...
...classes Pennington, a teaching fellow, uses the "new critic" method of intensive textual analysis. He strongly opposes the "precious flower" approach to literature which deals in general appreciation and fears that intensive analysis destroys the beauty of a work...
Hawaii's political season was in full flower last week. The race that is attracting the most interest: the contest to succeed U.S. Senator Oren E. Long, 73, a Democrat who is retiring. The opponents: Dillingham, 46, the scion of Hawaii's most prominent haole (white) family, and Democratic Representative Daniel Ken Inouye, 38, the first U.S. Congressman of Japanese descent...
...shouts of dobro pozhalovat (welcome ) from crowds of flower-bearing Russians, Composer Igor Stravinsky, 80, arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport and set foot on his native soil for the first time in 52 years. For the frail, cane-carrying composer, whose symphonic ballets were branded "corrupt and bourgeois" during Stalin's day, it was an emotional homecoming. "I left Czarist Russia and have returned to the Soviet Union, which I greet," said Stravinsky in Russian. "It is a great joy." After a tender meeting with a niece he had known only through an exchange of letters, Stravinsky...
...Death's blade lie many a flower curled...