Word: violet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tended prize roses, poinsettias and camellias. Each year, in his most floriated prose, he beseeched the Senate to designate the marigold as the nation's official flower: "It is as sprightly as the daffodil, as delicate as the carnation, as aggressive as the petunia, as ubiquitous as the violet and as stately as the snapdragon." He was one of the last national politicians who dared allow his eyes to mist when he spoke of the "fa-lag" and "coun-tray," and, in a way, the emotion was genuine...
...prominent Europeans who sat down with the U.S. President during his eight-day tour. While Nixon was occasionally greeted by protesting demonstrators, there were many gratifying moments of spontaneity and warmth. Outside Claridge's hotel in London, when Nixon ventured a U.S.-campaign-style foray of handshaking, Mrs. Violet Reeve exclaimed: "Eee! You've got luvverly warm hands!" "That," replied Nixon, "is because I've got a lovely warm car." At a Berlin electrical factory, his audience took up a cry that turned around the "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh!" chant of anti-U.S. students...
...waiting monsignor led the visitor to a turn-of-the-century elevator. They rode down several floors, walked through rooms lined with musty, leather-bound volumes, entered yet another gloomy room. Across a heavy wooden table, decorated only with an austere black crucifix, sat a man in a black, violet-trimmed cassock. The visitor presented himself. "I am Illich...
...violet-crowned Baltimore...
...gleaming black hair is no longer neatly combed back. The mustache has been trimmed. Gone is the dashing Captain Midnight look: tailored black flying suit, violet scarf, pearl-handled .38 revolver. At 37, the Vice President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Cao Ky, has taken to wearing bulky Mao-style suits -and the baggy new look is in keeping with both his sagging political fortunes and his efforts to fashion a new political image...