Word: magnolia
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...azalea bushes down to Washington and threw in 150 dog wood trees for good measure. Last fall m memory of her friend Susan Wagner' late wife of New York City's mayor' she planted 40 flowering cherry trees on Park Avenue-in addition to the 44 magnolia trees she had already put there and the 400 other trees she has had planted around the city. When the U.N. garden needed a spot of color, she pro vided it with 40,000 daffodils and several hundred cherry trees...
Most of Rain's inaction takes place smack-dab in Columbus, Texas, where Georgette (Lee Remick) toils as a carhop at the Magnolia Drive-in. Her no-good husband Henry (Steve McQueen) is a parolee who heads a string band and hankers to get famous with his songs, like Elvis Presley. Georgette jes' wants a home for her daughter, Margaret Rose. But all they do to achieve their small-town dreams is fidget on sunbaked street corners, wearing plain cotton. Or maybe they stare at each other, sort of hungry-like, creating pauses so long and wide...
...Magnolia & Morning-Glory. Wading ashore on Namu in the Bikini atoll, an island so hard hit by atomic fireballs that its entire top was blown off, the scientists found it covered with sedge, beach magnolia, and the small white-flowered tree messerschmidia, which was named for the 18th century German botanist, Daniel Messerschmid. So thick were the morning-glory vines on some of the islets that the scientists had to hack their way through with machetes. Birds are back in the atolls, replacing those that were killed or so blinded that they starved to death...
...other hand, the MFDP delegation is seated in Atlantic City, it will be a slap at the majority of Democrats in the Magnolia State and throughout the South. Johnson knows that his political support below the Mason-Dixon line is tottering. Supporting the MFDP won't endear him to many white Southerners, and the obvious compromise--seating both delegations--would not appease them, and would in fact, be a major victory for Negroes and civil rights workers in Mississippi...
...lace tradition; he died there in 1962. In writing 19 novels and 80 short stories, almost all about the South, he won through to an understanding that in its richness, scope and completeness, tragic vision and comic invention, will not soon be equaled. At his best he penetrated the magnolia curtain of Southern illusions to the secret springs of motive and action. He said, in effect, "This is the way it feels to be Southern"-something the North needs to know and the South may even need to be reminded...