Word: forsythia
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Spring moved north across the scarred face of Korea. Beyond Seoul, the forsythia was yellow and the trees were in leaf. At Panmunjom, the U.N. negotiators waited for some break in the wall of Communist obduracy; in the mud of the front lines, the soldiers waited their turn to go home. Thousands of Korean farmers could not wait. They moved north with the spring, a patient, hopeful tide, back to their own acres or to those of families wiped...
...comes a spate of rumors that Muley will not run again. Then comes a statement to the press: in response to his friends' demands, he will run after all. The ceremony came off right on schedule a fortnight ago; it was almost time to look for the first forsythia. Then, last week, Muley sadly broke the tradition. He announced that his doctors had ordered him not to risk the strain of another campaign...
Inside we found the building crowded with green-house nurtured exhibits set up by the local garden clubs or by plant and tree nurseries. There were corridors lined with forsythia, a pathway crowded by tulips, and long banks of orchids, all of them impossibly weedless and neat. The show had a pleasant and phony air of spring about it, as if it were a sudden incarnation of illustrations from a seed catalogue. The spring feeling was partly due to the chirps and warblings which permeated one part of building. We found that these were emanating from a booth occupied...
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...