Word: marigold
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...breechclothed youths made a risky, 100-ft. dive off a rampart into a well-and then did it all over again when Jackie discovered that her sister, Lee Radziwill, who was traveling with her, had fallen behind and missed the show. Sailing down the Ganges River on a marigold-decorated boat, Jackie inspected the burning and bathing ghats along the shore. In Agra she was "overwhelmed by a sense of awe" at the sight of the shimmering Taj Mahal in sun and moonlight. "I have seen pictures of the Taj," she said, "but for the first time I am struck...
...sped along, came the Maharani Gayatri Devi, her bobbed brown hair dipping over one eye and her lithe figure wrapped in a peppermint chiffon sari. With the homage they and their forefathers had always displayed to a maharajah's wife, the villagers touched foreheads to the dust, tossed marigold garlands and waved incense. Cried the crowds: "Come and be our lady again...
...first big success, he says, came in 1934 when he developed all-color double nasturtiums a year ahead of the competition. Sweet peas used to be the root of the Burpee flower business. When their sale fell off in the '305, Burpee decided that the public wanted marigolds. There was one big problem: they all smelled bad. One day he received a letter from a missionary offering him for $25 an ounce Tibetan marigold seeds that did not smell. Burpee accepted, found the plants had no smell, but unfortunately had runty blossoms, only one good bloom. Realizing that...
Burpee's current ambition is to have the marigold named the nation's floral emblem. He scorns the corn tassel promoted by Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas ("not a perfect flower"), the carnation backed by Colorado's Senator Gordon Allott ("Just try to grow them"), and the rose supported by Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott. Sniffs Burpee: "It is the emblem of England and eight other countries, four of which have fallen behind the Iron Curtain since selecting the rose as their emblem." He has even registered in Washington as a lobbyist to promote the marigold...
...girl grows older, to Marigold's dismay she acquires a wooer. But in sign language the tearful girl rebuffs her suitor, telling him that she must repay the love and kindness of her surrogate father by being his companion and comforter. Tears in his own eyes, old Marigold proclaims the lovers man and wife with his blessing. Five years go by, when a tiny hand turns the doorknob of the cart door, followed by dark eyes and curly locks. "Grandfather," says the little girl. "She can speak!" cries Marigold, as "the happy and yet pitying tears fell rolling down...