Word: gladioli
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...Embassy's U.S. Interests Section in Tehran. M.P. Ahmed Bourghani phoned Mohammed Ali Abtahi, Khatami's former chief of staff, and asked him to come along and sign. Abtahi said no, but minutes before the book was shipped off to Washington, Bourghani showed up with a bouquet of white gladioli to sign on behalf of the Speaker of Parliament, Mehdi Karroubi...
...Chapter One: The Beginning 1919: Clifton Keith Hillegass is born in Rising City, Nebraska, not far from Lincoln. His father was a rural mail carrier and his mother raised gladioli...
...monument to workers slain in 1970, they were stopped by a cordon of security police. Walesa and his bodyguard were permitted to pass. Advancing to the monument, the stocky electrician knelt before its three towering steel crosses and gently laid at its base a bouquet of red and pink gladioli. Then, flanked by security police, Walesa slowly raised his right hand in the defiant V sign...
...brown apartment building across town, meanwhile, Lech Walesa arrived with a bunch of gladioli and a large crucifix to open up the temporary union headquarters. He stretched out his hands, looked skyward and proclaimed: "I am in an empty room, but one full of hope." Walesa said that he and the other members of the Gdansk strike committee would serve as interim officers until elections can be held; but he confessed that no one yet knows how the new unions will operate. The settlement stipulated that any worker could choose to remain in the old party-controlled unions and even...
...scene of the colossal blast, which tore a 4-ft. crater in the main waiting room and destroyed one entire side of the station, Bologna's mourners created their own folk shrine to the dead. Bouquets of carnations and gladioli were tossed, some with photographs of victims attached. Lines of young travelers with rucksacks paused thoughtfully on the way to their trains. By week's end vases of flowers could be seen among the plastic-covered bouquets stacked at the scene of the explosion, thus giving an air of permanence to the site. Occasionally a housewife would kneel...