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Word: shamrocks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Franklin Roosevelt was in fine fettle. It was St. Patrick's Day: he wore a greenish tweed suit, a green tie, a green ribbon in his lapel; on his desk stood a vase of green carnations, a pot of shamrock. He was pleased at having a big cat to let out of the bag-General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: 2,109 Years Ago . . . | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...Ireland will be free when the palm and the shamrock are worn together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Prime Minister of Freedom | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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