Word: jacarandas
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Sister Kenny in & out of the U.S. at will, without passport or visa. But night & day work during the Minnesota epidemic of 1946 had undermined her health. Her right side paralyzed by Parkinson's disease, Sister Kenny went back to Queensland, longing for a last look at the jacaranda trees in bloom around her home in Toowoomba. There, this week, she died, aged 66. She had lived to see her jacarandas blossom and to see her life work bearing fruit around the world...
...fortunate: weeks passed and the mornings were all blue and clear. Spring flowers covered the veld and the giant jacaranda tree bloomed. (page...