Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after four years, Johnson promised that his successor, yet to be found, would be "the best, most adventurous, imaginative, best-equipped doctor with vision in this country." The President even made a production of signing a minor bill giving postmasters a five-day week. Summoning 76 postmasters to the Rose Garden, L.B.J. allowed: "It is glorious that we can be here in this peaceful attitude and be making so much progress with, I think, the best Congress that was ever assembled." The Biggest. On signing the $7.5 billion housing bill, Johnson recalled, for an audience in the Rose Garden, that...
...innocents. For twelve years publication of his name was forbidden in Spain; not until 1960 was one of his plays again publicly enacted. When the pavilion's exhibition opened, it was plain that the ban on Spain's most popular contemporary poet was completely lifted. Red Roses & Phantoms. More than that, the exhibition offers a revealing glimpse of a personal side of the poet's work. He drew guitars and mandolins, stage decors and a very plain-looking muse. He sketched the heroine of his first well-known play, Mariana Pineda, as abject as ever a young...
Cats & Dogs. The business of selling flowers in the U.S. now amounts to more than $800 million a year. Men still order more flowers than women, send so many on birthdays and anniversaries that many florists now keep card files, mail out reminders each year. The hardy rose remains the perennial bestseller; more than $30 million worth are sold each year. Flowers arranged and put in vases at the shop are growing rapidly in popularity-partly because overworked nurses no longer have time to arrange the floods of flowers that hospital patients receive each day. Though small arrangements sell best...
...everyone agreed with Robinson's analysis. An African student rose in the back of the hall and said that he felt the speech had been "devoid of facts." The statement met with both mind applause and some hissing...
...stake in the Trans-Alpine pipeline. Its big red "M" flies over 3,800 gas stations in six states and nearly 700 more in Europe. Last year all these operations produced record sales of $496 million, lifted earnings 22% to $60 million; in 1965's second quarter, earnings rose...