Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bird-of-paradise plant sways gently in the breeze. Moistened by a wintry rain, the leaves of an azalea shed pearls of water. Except for the tile mosaic of a skull that lies in their midst, the cluster of plants looks like just another pretty California backyard garden. In fact, the attractive foliage masks the sinister nature of the display. Located in a walled courtyard outside the pediatrics clinic at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, Calif., the garden consists of 20 plants, all of them popular -and poisonous...
...both former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris and Sargent Shriver, who, with 11 and 9 per cent of the Democratic ballots, respectively, became darkhorses, at best, for the nod in Madison Square Garden in July--Shriver's malapropos Biblical invocation that, "Like Lazarus, I've risen from the experts' graves," notwithstanding...
...pairings for the first round will pit the number one seed against number eight, two against seven, three versus six, and four against five. The semifinals will be in Boston Garden March 12, with the finals the night after...
...work with the help of a Dutch guard who had once served as a forced laborer in a German factory. Speer's Russian captors-who alternate with more lenient Westerners-are as harsh and arbitrary as Reich Marshals. When he steals a cauliflower from the prison vegetable garden, Speer is caught and sentenced to a week of solitary confinement...
...central parts of the country, that have not been previously cultivated or had been destroyed by American bombs. Teams of volunteers accompany returning peasants into these areas to clear out unexploded mines and set up irrigation systems. Each family that goes back receives a home and land for a garden and rice paddy and is given spending money until it can support itself, farm implements, and medical and technical advice...