Word: mimosa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a tall, slender trunk and a ragged umbrella of drooping green leaves, it looks like a mimosa. But the tropical Leucaena leucocephala is a bit different from other trees: in tropical climates it grows as high as 65 ft. in five years. That makes it a prime candidate for reforestation projects in overlumbered and wood-short Third World countries. The tree is also sort of a botanical schmoo;* undemanding itself, it provides a bountiful array of foods and fuels...
Only Twice. Now, when Nixon is in town, San Clemente hums with the business of the most powerful nation on earth-and of the camp followers. Camera-laden tourists by the hundreds cruise the once-quiet, mimosa-lined boulevards in the hope of spotting the President. The San Clemente Inn provides maps of the quarter-mile route to the gates of the Western White House, but all the tourist gets is the gates; a grove of palms hides Nixon's offices and home...
...papal visit to the poor and rocky island in the Tyrrhenian Sea began joyfully enough. Flying into the capital of Cagliari, Paul was welcomed by the blast of boat whistles and salvos of fresh carnations and mimosa blossoms tossed in his path. Never before had a reigning Pontiff been on the island; the last papal visitor was Pontianus, who was exiled there in A.D. 235 by the Christian-hating Emperor Maximinus Thrax...