Word: hyacinths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...garden. From the very first page, when beautiful Stella Madden catches the delicate odor of spring, the prose thrusts up stalks of dracaena, carnations, ger-beras, tulips, coleuses, yaupon, oleander, jasmine, gladioli, magnolia and azalea. Even the characters come equipped with floral borders: Yancey, a condemned murderer, "clutches his hyacinth-red hair"; beautiful Stella thinks of herself as an or chid, is suspended on "a liana of ecstasy...
...midday two Bengali villages were in ashes, the water in two hyacinth-covered ponds was red from the blood of floating bodies. When the troops arrived, they found some 400 dead, including 25 women and nine children, and guessed that the total would rise to at least 600 and possibly...
...table in one rested a freshly cut papaya. In another coolie clothes hung on a peg. Chickens scratched in a tiny garden patch. As they pulled away, the French tossed a grenade into a frail native dugout on the riverbank; it disappeared in an upheaval of water and swamp hyacinth. "It's hard on people who live here," explained an officer, "but if we leave their craft, the Viet Minh use them for moving ammunition and supplies. Small boats are the transport of this battle ground...