Word: mimosa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haiti can also grow mimosa, jasmine, tuberose, and the ylang-ylang tree, whose heavily scented yellow-green flowers normally come from the Philippines. The Dominican Republic in addition to all these, can grow the fragrant cassie bush, whose oil is now so scarce that perfumers cannot obtain it for love nor money. There the Jewish refugee colony at Sosua, with funds from U.S. philanthropists, is studying new perfume sources...
...mimosa-like flower of the acacia family, the wattle is worn (in season) by Australians as a national emblem...
...Italians who reached Bengasi did not pause even for a last sentimental look at the white houses, the long rows of mimosa, the great marble fagade of the Berenice Hotel. They beat it to the south in headlong flight-only to come smack up against the southern jaw of the pincer. With claustrophobic fury they threw tanks, field guns, even suicide troops with gasoline bombs, against the British ring of mobile steel. But the British held, and soon the Italians gave...
...married Mimosa Gates, a prospector's sister, soon headed south for California. In California came the whisper again: Gold in Nevada! Key Pittman arrived in Tonopah, Nev. by stagecoach, a journey colder and more hazardous than any Klondike trip. That was 1902. "Winter of Death," when men dug as many holes for graves as for gold. Pittman missed both, settled down as Tonopah's legal light. By 1910 he was restless again. Congress didn't seem to understand mining-especially silver mining. He went to the Senate in 1912, was re-elected...
...Japan is not a man. He is 39 years old, has six human children, weighs about 135 pounds, eats, sleeps and fans himself; but he is not a man. Hirohito, Son of the Sun Goddess, is a lot of things. He is fierce samurai battles, snowcapped volcanoes, the flowering mimosa, fat carp in mountain pools. He is exaggerated politeness, intense ambition, orchidaceous sensitivity. He is the rising sun. He is also a big navy, and a crying need for cheap rice and living space. He embraces Japan. He is Japan...