Word: wistaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yung Tai, summed it up: "We cannot accept any premise that leaves Korea divided and makes North Korea a Chinese colony." For decades Patriot Rhee and his followers have dreamed of, planned, suffered torture and exile for an independent and unified Korea. Now, a few miles away from his wistaria-covered terrace, U.N. negotiators were bargaining that dream away in the name of peace. What made Rhee doubly angry was that of all of the U.S.'s allies, only South Korea itself (which now holds two-thirds of the battle line and the longest casualty list) had not been...
...They had gone on a spree. This theory grew weaker as the days wore on. MacLean's wife is pregnant; his two sons, aged seven and five, are ill with measles. He was proud of his rambling, wistaria-covered country house in Kent, had just ordered new wallpaper for the nursery...
English-speaking Americans, however, were more than borrowers and corrupters. As the nation grew, the language grew too-adding pull up stakes and pony express, wistaria and widow's walk, freshman and flunk, sideburns (the cheek whiskers worn by Union Army General Ambrose Burnside) and bloomers (the billowing trousers worn by Feminist Amelia Bloomer). An erudite U.S. missionary named T. S. Savage first named the gorilla. His source: the Greek translation of the word that Hanno of Carthage used to describe the hostile and hairy creatures he met on his travels...
Atami, on Japan's southeast coast, is one of the loveliest resort towns in the world. The mountains tumble abruptly down to Atami's yellow beach, and at this time of year the wistaria blooms in purple luxuriance on the walls of inns and cottages that cling to Atami's hillsides...