Word: shrub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home is papered with signs reading, "Thank you for not smoking. The American Cancer Society." Says Hughes: "Blistering rows occur if he smells smoke, so I would disappear into the garden, ostensibly to contemplate nature, but in fact to sneak a cigarette and bury the butt under a shrub." As a veteran connoisseur of art, architecture and antiquity, Hughes learned long ago to treat a monument with respect...
Ultra-steady midfielder Gordie Nelson followed up two minutes later by taking a pretty feed from potentially awesome freshman attackman Norman "Shrub" Forbush (his third assist of the day, and his tenth of the season) and pumping home a key insurance goal...
...conventions of photojournalism, not very arresting. Its pleasures have to do with formal wit, mild irony and surrealist incongruity. One sees a thing nailed down with a decisive tap, as when Lee Friedlander, a deceptively casual imagemaker, positions his eyeline on an ordinary suburban street to get a flowering shrub directly behind a lamppost, so that the street light seems to be emitting great sprays of blossom in broad daylight. In one way, Elliott Erwitt's New Jersey, 1953, is a most plainly observed view by a roadside: sky, bushes, bus stop. But the cannon muzzle poking over...
Manzanita is Spanish for "little apple"-a reference to the tiny berries nestled amid the 4-ft. shrub's shiny green leaves and pink blossoms. Indians used to boil manzanita leaves to make a medicinal tea to treat venereal disease. There are about 50 types of the plant, but the Presidio variety has been dying out as developers paved over its habitat...
...Army is keeping the exact location of its shrub secret to protect it from plantnapers. Already, people have been spotted skulking around the Presidio base in search of it. "It's quite a handsome ground cover and would make a nice addition to someone's garden," says Rare-Plant Expert Alice Howard. What will happen if the Sixth Army gets hard pressed? Threatens Howard: "We'll call out the vigilante corps of the California Native Plant Society...