Word: petunia
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...them in your ear, for instance, or fed them to a janitor, you can count on "pleasant social times ahead." The entry under "Pickle" is more or less what the amateur would expect: "overall satisfaction with the general state of your life, love, and pursuit of happiness is forecast." "Petunia" shows a need for professional guidance. Growing outdoors, "these flowers signify pleasant friendly social affairs." A petunia indoors foretells "a period of boredom...
...garden-club members still worry that they have not shaken their old image. "I suppose," sighed one silver-haired delegate from Louisiana, "that they are going to call us all little old dowagers in tennis shoes, puttering around in our gardens." Said another: "They always used to call us petunia pickers. I wonder what they call...
...garden at Sterling, Va., he tended prize roses, poinsettias and camellias. Each year, in his most floriated prose, he beseeched the Senate to designate the marigold as the nation's official flower: "It is as sprightly as the daffodil, as delicate as the carnation, as aggressive as the petunia, as ubiquitous as the violet and as stately as the snapdragon." He was one of the last national politicians who dared allow his eyes to mist when he spoke of the "fa-lag" and "coun-tray," and, in a way, the emotion was genuine...
...birds were singing, the trees were budding, and the floriated rhetoric of Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, 71, was in full bloom. "It is as sprightly as the daffodil, as colorful as the rose, as resolute as the zinnia, as delicate as the carnation, as aggressive as the petunia, as ubiquitous as the violet and as stately as the snapdragon," hymned Evin his Hammond Organ voice. "It beguiles the senses and ennobles the spirit of man." With that he continued his perennial crusade by presenting to the Senate his annual resolution asking that the marigold be designated...
...triumphant commonplace." Or, Parkman might add today, how a security-minded society and government would seek to remove all risk from the life of the citizen. Have prosperity and a plenitude of leisure softened the American, converting him into a creature fit only for paper shuffling, patio living and petunia potting...