Word: hoodwink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blossoms to avoid having their lobbies decorated with poinsettias in July. In San Francisco some artists use the plastics for models in their still lifes. Texas housemaids dust the flowers weekly instead of changing the water daily. On the West Coast, green-thumbed weekend gardeners have been known to hoodwink their neighbors with lavish beds of plastic tulips. Tired of watching their natural flowers succumb to blight, drought or neighborhood dogs, many Detroiters have replaced them with artificial blooms to eliminate bare spots in their landscaping. One suburban Dallasite mixed a real and an imitation wisteria vine. "In the summer...