Word: gladiolus
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...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...
...beginning The Man slows down to a walk. Worse yet, TV's Telly Savalas (The Untouchables, The Witness), cast to type as the card-carrying hoodlum, almost succeeds in heisting the show from Danny when in the last reel, Telly-on the Diners' Club-rents Avis Fords, gladiolus bouquets, peony-print bridesmaids' outfits, redheaded office girls, and messengers on bicycles to stage a gangland wedding getaway. Danny Kaye does not even have a git-gat-gittle patter song to reassure audiences that they are watching him and not Jerry Lewis. What's more he seems...
...Wallace, 63, stopped hoeing the strawberry plants on his South Salem, N. Y. farm long enough to tell a reporter that he was "very happy not to be connected with any party or candidate" this year. The candidate for his interest right now, said Wallace, is a new hybrid gladiolus seedling which he is developing. The flower, he explained, has "a very nice ruffle, if you know what that means...
...livery greet them at the front door, usher them into a lobby glad with music and flowers and the trilling of canaries. Christmas and holidays the bank keeps open house, with fruit cake, soft drinks and wine for all comers. Last year the bank gave away 20,000 gladiolus bulbs from its own nursery...
...Sunday can express the season-white for All Saints' Day, red for Whitsunday-or they may be a memorial. . . . For instance, one Sunday the flowers at the Church of the Ascension were given in memory of a warrior son lost on the field of battle. Glorious spears of gladiolus were selected in a vivid, singing red-a most triumphant note all through the worship, that...