Word: forsythia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people lined the streets of Columbia, which only has 66,000 residents. There were a few dissenters, of course: THE EMPEROR HAS NO BRAINS read one sign, and another said FARMS NOT ARMS. But mostly it was a greening vista of kids and parents on lawns fresh with forsythia; they were eager to show off Hickman High, one of the tops in the nation, whose tag is the Kewpies because its first athletic teams smiled through defeat...
...animals, trying to convince a colt that if he did not wean himself soon his mother would waste away, pausing to brag about his bass pond, saying he would never shoot deer because he is awed by them--his word, awe--and gently pulling back the branches of budding forsythia to clear the trail for a companion, who felt small...
...patches are blooming. Just a few weeks ago in Rock Creek Park, for instance, the National Park Service had a Dixieland band and a blue-grass group come out and celebrate the fall foliage. The moment spring begins, you may be sure, Washingtonians will turn emphatic about the glorious forsythia, the jonquils and daffodils and, of course, all the perfect cherry blossoms. They go on and on about the dogwoods, the fields of hyacinths and azaleas, the quarter-million tulips planted near the Tidal Basin. Special pilgrimages are urged on visitors: not just the National Arboretum-precious camellias! amazing bonsai...
...Helmut Kohl as head of government, and the smiling Chancellor was surrounded by well-wishers. His allies rushed forward with hearty congratulations. Hans-Jochen Vogel, his Social Democratic opponent in the last elections, offered a friendly handshake. Then Newcomer Marieluise Beck-Oberdorf presented the Chancellor with a vibrant yellow forsythia branch...