Word: mimosas
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...found his charcoal and lithograph dreams of terror giving way to a glowing world of pastels and oils. One of his favorite subjects became the bouquets of fresh Ile de France flowers. In one of his best (see color page), he has caught not only the fragile beauty of mimosa and anemone, but somehow echoed the haunting mystery of the "silent valley" that he loved to contemplate outside the windows of his summer studio as he painted...
...popular vote: mother, memory, Cellophane, bellboy, melancholy, belladonna, flamingo, wilderness, tambourine, lavender. Last week Logophile Colby reported the results of a new readers' poll. Mother had slipped a bit, but was still listed among the top ten. There were eight new favorites. The 1950 hit parade: melody, lullaby, mimosa, memory, mellow, mother, moonbeam, murmuring, beautiful, lanolin...
...stayed green all winter long. Dutch bargemen poled happily along canals that were free of January ice for the first time since 1900. With the canals absorbing some 60% of the country's freight traffic, hard-pressed Dutch railroads were breathing easy. In Italy, where the fragrant mimosa had flowered in December, thanks to the mildest winter of the century, cattle and sheep were grazing hoof-deep in verdant pastureland while farmers sent their plows deep into soft, moist earth. "Now that the sun is reaching again into the dark corners of the valley," sighed a pensive, copper-haired...
...Nice, the Virgin passed through a shower of mimosa, roses and carnations. In Antibes, barefoot sailors escorted her to the parish church. Everywhere provincial roads resounded with the prayers of kneeling suppliants: "Virgin, our hope, save France. . . ." And now, borne forward on a peasant's cart by sweating seminarists, the Virgin of Boulogne came to the Red Belt barricades...
...Mayor Edward J. Kelly boarded the 8:15 C & A for Springfield. In the state capital, Governor Dwight Green's shiny black limousine called for him, took him to the Governor's ancient mansion. There, in the small family dining room, over a centerpiece of snapdragons and mimosa, Democrat Ed Kelly and Republican Dwight Green sat down to lunch. The menu was keyed to Ed Kelly's delicate stomach: consommé madrilene, cheese soufflé, green salad, fruit compote and coffee. It was not their first meeting, but it was the first time they had talked together...