Word: gladioli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lobby of Roanoke's Hotel Roanoke last week hung a large wreath of yellow roses and gladioli with the inscription: "In honor of those who gave their all in our fight for freedom in the market place." It was a reminder to the delegates at the National Congress of Petroleum Retailers meeting that 60,000 service station operators have bitten the dust in the Great Gasoline Price War, which threatens to be the sharpest and costliest ever...
...twelve-room cottage: some of Bobby and Ethel Kennedy's seven children have to double up. Because the children spend so much time out of doors, Ethel has made their playroom over into a brightly colored second living room. In every bedroom are bunches of petunias, snapdragons, gladioli and cosmos from the Kennedys' carefully tended flower gardens. At night, hurricane lamps light the dining room...
Polite Phrases. Next morning he splashed through a downpour without raincoat to lay white gladioli and yellow chrysanthemums at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then sat next to former President Dwight Eisenhower at a White House luncheon. Back in the rain, he cruised the choppy Potomac for two hours with Kennedy on the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. Before leaving the U.S., Ikeda addressed the House of Representatives and flew on to New York, where, in polite phrases, he issued a clear warning: U.S. restrictions against Japanese products can hurt the Japanese economy-and that economy is vital...
...country of princes and peasants, where the democratic process has made no more impact than has the Communist cry of revolution. There is Prince Souvanna Phouma, who claims to be Premier and is recognized as such by the Russians, though he is off in voluntary exile in Cambodia, cultivating gladioli at a royal villa borrowed from Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk. Souvanna is a man so enigmatic that he persistently refuses to define what he means by his doctrine of "neutrality in neutralism," on the ground that Laotians dislike precision. There is Prince Boun Oum, recognized as Premier...