Word: forsythia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jessie sat on the Gordon Linen sacks in the Radcliffe Quad putting forsythia into her hair. Suddenly she shot upwards and ran spring-like towards an oncoming Volkswagen. "Clipper!" she shouted, "I want to go ride the swan boats. I want to buy a balloon and blow bubbles and ride the swan boats...
Atlanta fretted about the dying winter's snowy last fling, which nipped peach buds and forsythia blooms brought forth early by a false spring. Wichita grumbled about its flurry of nonfatal but highly uncomfortable flu. Miami complained of nagging rain-but 23,026 racing fans braved it on Gulfstream Park's opening day to bet $1,863,447. Texas rejoiced in the recent soaking rains that brightened parched fields with blankets of green and stirred hopes that the seven-year drought might be ending at last...
...south Georgia the piney woods were green, yellow forsythia buds were breaking open, and the camellias-pink, red and white-were in full glory. The buoyancy of spring was on the land, and Dwight Eisenhower, fresh in from Washington, was a man eminently in tune with his environment. From the moment he stepped out of the Columbine at Moultrie at midweek, the President's progress was reminiscent of the heady days of the 1952 campaign...
...Justice seemed undisturbed. He sat on the poop of the barge holding a branch of forsythia, smiling and doffing his tan Stetson. When the party climbed out onto the Georgetown cobblestones at the end of the trip, he seemed as fresh and springy of step as ever. But as he got into his chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile to go home, certain marks of wilderness attrition were unmistakably evident: somehow, somewhere, Justice Douglas had got his chin into some poison...
Bright, green, genuine spring warmed the South. Atlanta was abloom with narcissus, forsythia and bridal wreath. Pitchers sweated in baseball training camps from Florida to California. And Mobile held its annual Azalea Trail Parade...