Word: forsythia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berliners were happy, but they did not dance in the streets. A few hundred, with garlands of lilac and forsythia, waited quietly under a bright moon to welcome the first motor traffic from the free West. That honor went to U.S. correspondents, who staged a pressmen's circus, racing their cars along the Autobahn (and into the headlines back home). Next day was a school holiday, and the black, red & gold flag of the old Weimar Republic, now the banner of the new West German state, flew everywhere-20,000 flags had been shipped in by Allied airlift...
...Bluebonnets. In Virginia it was Garden Week, and ancient and hedge-bordered Tidewater estates were open for inspection; bluebonnets bloomed across the sandy distances of west Texas; forsythia blossomed under budding trees from New England to the Northwest, and golden California poppies dotted the fields near Los Angeles. Highways everywhere echoed to the wham-wham-wham of people tearing along at a cunning five miles above the speed limit to stare at flowers...
...February, forsythia bloomed on Long Island, Maryland's spring peepers started to peep, and shirtsleeved New Yorkers lay on green grass in Central Park. In violent contrast, Southern Californians shoveled snow this winter for the first time in their lives, and the stiff bodies of frozen cattle broke the blades of rotary snowplows in blizzard-bound Montana...
...armful of pussywillows. He walked the woods-"Before a budget I always seek out the trees." He listened to chirping birds, and he gathered violets and brought them to his office at 11 Downing Street. There, in his final hours of travail, he sat at a desk "overlooking the forsythia and almond blossoms in the garden of No. 10," reported London's Evening News...
...land beyond the Brooklyn Bridge, where 2,800,000 real human beings live among baby carriages, delicatessens, and streets of all-alike houses, spring was beginning to stir. Robins and forsythia blossoms appeared in Prospect Park. From Red Hook to Canarsie the sound of baseball bats flung to the pavement and the scuffing of feet skedaddling after fly balls could be heard in nearly every block. At Ebbets Field, the infield shone emerald-green for next week's opening game. Everything was in order but the Dodgers-and because of them there was little joy in Brooklyn...