Word: jacarandas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election day this week, Paraguay's President Federico Chaves puffed his black cigars and puttered about his two-story house on a jacaranda-shaded street in Asunción. Don Federico could celebrate his 71st birthday and his second presidential victory with calm assurance, for it was a one-man election, Paraguay's fourth since 1948.* Through the day, most of the 200,000 registered voters dutifully visited the polls (under threat of fine) to cast their ballots for him as the candidate of the Colorados, the country's only legal political party...
...Sister Kenny in & out of the U.S. at will, without passport or visa. But night & day work during the Minnesota epidemic of 1946 had undermined her health. Her right side paralyzed by Parkinson's disease, Sister Kenny went back to Queensland, longing for a last look at the jacaranda trees in bloom around her home in Toowoomba. There, this week, she died, aged 66. She had lived to see her jacarandas blossom and to see her life work bearing fruit around the world...
...fortunate: weeks passed and the mornings were all blue and clear. Spring flowers covered the veld and the giant jacaranda tree bloomed. (page...