Word: stems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delphiniums and mums. In the rose business, in which it annually grosses three times the combined sales of its three nearest rivals, J. & P. also leads its field in adapting to changing times. In 1940 it promoted floribunda roses-many full-sized blooms carried candelabra-fashion on a single stem-for small gardeners who want to make the kind of splashy effect with half a dozen rosebushes that estate gardeners get with whole beds. Today 70% of J. & P.'s rose sales are in floribundas. For those who want dozens of blossoms on a single stalk, J. & P. developed...
...admits once ordering the removal of a gall bladder from a woman whose pains actually ceased only with the return of her soldier son. Psychosomatic medicine receives some strikingly visceral tributes from Schindler's subheads, e.g., "The Colon Is the Mirror of the Mind," "From the Emotions, Too, Stem Most Belches...
...financial difficulties of the Club stem partly from the recent production of Hamlet and from a lack of suitable shop space. Having been evicted from its Dudley Hall shop room, as a result of a recent fire, the Club now has no place in which to prepare sets, lighting, and other necessary stage equipment. Lack of facilities in the past has repeatedly forced the Club to "start from the beginning" in getting together such equipment; and this, according to Club officials, has constituted an unnecessary financial waste...
...journalist told an audience at the Community Church of Boston that his criticism of the State Department did not stem from sympathy with the Communist Bloc. He explained that he finds "the tell-tale seeds of totalitarianism" in the "sorry spectacle of the Department's actions...
Married. Mike Todd, 49, (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen), stem-winding, cigar-chewing Hollywood entrepreneur (Around the World in 80 Days); and Elizabeth Taylor, 24, brunette cinemactress (Giant); both for the third time, a week after her Mexican divorce from Cinemactor Michael (The Egyptian) Wilding; in Puerto Marqués, Mexico...