Word: gladioli
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...seemingly endless ordeal of the funeral, Mrs. Eisenhower, 72, nevertheless managed to retain her composure. She gave way to tears only occasionally. About two hours after the interment, when the last of the official visitors had departed, she returned unobtrusively to the small chapel. There she placed yellow gladioli on her husband's crypt and yellow chrysanthemums on the nearby tomb of her first born son, Doud Dwight, who died at the age of three...
...those rates, some clients might feel piqued that the "temporaries" do not always look like the pert young things Kelly has been sending to plant gladioli and publicity in city parks under something called "the Kelly Beautification Program." The average temporary is a housewife, ex-secretary, somewhere "over 35" in age (one Seattle Kelly Girl is 81). But employers figure they come out about even with the temporaries, since permanent employees are expensive to recruit and command fringe benefits that add a third or more to basic wage rates...
...semi-rural Florida, east of Tampa, large amounts of fluorides emitted from phosphate plants have rained down on nearby citrus groves, ranches and gladiolus farms. Orange and lemon trees that absorbed the fluorides produced smaller yields, and gladioli turned brown and died. A national air-pollution symposium reported that cattle grazing on grass that was contaminated with the fluorides developed uneven teeth that hindered chewing and joints so swollen that many of the animals could not stand. Fluorides have also etched windowpanes, giving them the frosted appearance of a light bulb...
Thinking is about all that Hess does these days. Unlike Speer and Von Schirach, who busied themselves in the Spandau garden and read voluminously (Speer raised exemplary gladioli; Von Schirach memorized passages from Dante's Divine Comedy), Hess, for the most part, lies on the floor of his 7-by 10-ft. cell, clad in grey shirt, brown corduroys and wooden clogs, and practices yoga. During exercise periods, he marches listlessly about the yard in a black overcoat with a white numeral 7 stenciled on its back. Sometimes he reads the Frankfurter Allgemeine or the Communist Neues Deutschland...
...such offers before, but Ho has yet to take them up. Unity was maintained-on the surface at least-right up to the moment that Brezhnev boarded his Aeroflot Ilyushin-18 to fly back to Moscow. After kissing a row of little girls and accepting a spray of red gladioli, Brezhnev heartily embraced Ceauşescu and bussed him three times on the cheeks. The Rumanian's face remained impassive throughout the whole performance. After all, to be kissed but not squeezed by the Russian bear was a small enough price to pay for independence...