Word: wreathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Eurico Caspar Dutra, accompanied by his son António João Dutra, his daughter-in-law, and his naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect TVA and Vanderbilt University's Institute for Brazilian Studies...
...sing and give cheers for such individuals as the president or a favorite janitor at the direction of the marshal. Later on, all classes joined hands and whirled in dizzy circles around the tree, "till all the college is swaying in the unwieldy ring," as Lowell reported it. A wreath of flowers was hung from one branch, and there were horse battles among the crowd to reach the wreath and tear out a handful of became more savage. Undergraduate organizations sent picked goon squads to crab the flowers, and the Tree Exercise "uniform" changed to old clothes and football outfits...
Tradition has it that the first filly to boot a winner home this morning will wear the winner's wreath in the biggest rat race of them all-a wedding band--before any other member of her class. If she already has the services of a legally acquired stud, the story goes, she will be the first to foal...
...starting signal, the highly-strung athletes will simultaneously begin to run, to roll their hoops, and to squeal. The race ends at the Chapel, where the winner will receive a wreath...
...Wreath of Roses is not the "perfect novel" that she has confessed she would like to write, but it contains three extremely well-drawn characters: two young women and a baby. Confidantes and friends . from girlhood, Camilla Hill and Liz Nicholson are spending their summer holiday together again in an old village, full of gardens which ooze sunny peace as a honeycomb oozes honey. Liz's new baby creates all kinds of subtle estrangements, hilarities and tensions. A more serious tension arises when a handsome young stranger arrives at the local inn; though Camilla knows that he is dangerous...