Word: flower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holiday spirit among Peiping's 2,000,000 residents. Bazaars were crowded as prices dropped. In preparation for the Chinese New Year (Jan. 29), firecracker makers started working around the clock catching up on time lost during the siege when their wares were banned. Said a shopkeeper on Flower Street: "Now we can have plenty of chaotse (steamed meat dumplings) on New Year's night. If peace had not come, flour would have been too expensive...
Gootenberg also announced that the HLU had tentatively planned to substitute "Grand Illusion," "The Ghost Goes West," and the "Stone Flower." The spring programs will also feature resumees of football seasons of several past years...
Tacho's Managua, unlike the Costa Rican capital of San José, did not receive the commissioners with flower-strewn streets. ("We are the accused. It wouldn't look right.") There was, in fact, enough brown Managua dust on the streets to get in any investigator's eyes...
Radcliffe will provide a snack bar and gift booth for the concert. Students will serve as workers and flower sellers...
...frankly reactionary and aggressive program?" Said Foreign Minister Molotov last week: Tom Dewey. And what did the U.S. elections mean? Said Molotov: "A majority of the Americans rejected this program." And what of the surprisingly small number of Americans who had voted for Henry Wallace? Said Moscow: "The flower of the nation. Each ... is worth more in moral authority . . . than 100 voting robots...