Word: evergreen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the deciduous (non-evergreen) leaf begins to die and disintegrate, the molecules of its unstable green pigment, chlorophyll, disappear. Its departure reveals the yellow carotene and xanthophyll which have been present but masked by the green all summer...
...most of the 19th Century-from the early 1800's, when Dr. Redmond Dillon Barry of nearby Gallatin first imported an evergreen grass known as blue from his native Ireland, to 1882, when the great Iroquois (only U.S.-bred horse ever to win the English Derby) was retired to stud at nearby Belle Meade-Nashville was famed as "the cradle of the thoroughbred...
...called "Get the Traitors." Five papier-mâché puppet heads were arranged on the ground. Each represented a Chinese who had sold out to the Japanese. Several paces away laughing Chungking citizens lined up for chances, at 5? a throw, to try to ring the heads with evergreen wreaths. Whoever succeeded in "crowning" the puppet which represented the most important traitor of them all, Wang Ching-wei, was awarded a five-dollar National Reconstruction Bond...