Word: geranium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come after Mitterrand had jumped the fence into the gardens; Pesquet and his driver had been obliged to hold their fire until a cruising taxicab and a pair of lovers got out of the way. The delay, Pesquet recalled, had prompted Mitterrand to call out impatiently from his geranium bed: "All right, get going...
...burst into bloom. She settles among the Left Bank's blissfully bug-bitten expatriates, embraces the two tenets of their haute couture: 1) hardly anyone washes, and 2) the girls change their beds oftener than their dresses. In no time at all, Sally Jay is blooming like a geranium...
...comforts of modern civilization. Among them: a cavernous closet just for Miss Crawford's 304 pairs of shoes, another for her cosmetics and pills, a special shampoo and hairdressing basin with spray faucets, a massage table and whirlpool tub for Steele, a diamond-shaped dining-room table, a geranium-pink bedroom with wood-burning fireplace...
...color of earth, and had a texture not unlike a truffle, apart from one raw reddish gash in it. It gave off an odor as of clay newly dug; also a pungent whiff of onion and of oil of geranium...They stood frozen before this object that drew and yet repelled them, as if a uniform reptillian mass should suddenly uncoil before their eyes and rear a dozen snaky heads. It was death's absolute presence that confronted them...
...Exchequer was due to show up carrying the battered dispatch case used by Gladstone and by every Chancellor since. A few Tory traditionalists wore black silk toppers. Sir Winston Churchill, who attended his first Budget Day in 1901, beamed from his bench below the gangway, sporting a huge red geranium in his lapel...