Word: tulip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what, exactly, does it mean? On the most obvious level, it means what everyone knows: that money is losing value. But it also means that we are in the grip of a wave similar to what, in 17th century Holland, was known as the Tulip Mania. The tulip was then a comparatively new import from the Near East, and mutant specimens, with irregular stripes, were prized as rarities-so prized that men would mortgage their villas and their fields. The tulips had little intrinsic value. Their worth as commodities was a function of pure, irrational desire, and their economic fate...
...Washington New Town, a suburb of Newcastle, the President visited the manor where George Washington's forebears lived from 1228 to 1613. After walking to the village green, he planted a tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) seedling that came from descendants of trees Washington himself had planted in the U.S. at Mount Vernon...
...only fellow undergraduate I spotted in there yesterday, by the way, was Brian Hughes '78, a Linguistics major. He said he is taking "Worts" because of an interest in plants. Well I like plants too, but give me a tulip over a moss...
...feet high. For daytime outings, this concoction is decorated with ribbons, feathers, flowers, birds' nests or vegetables. After entertaining eleven young women recently, a London hostess boasted that "they had, amongst them, on their heads, an acre and a half of shrubbery, besides slopes, grass plots, tulip beds...
Such events nourish him. He has just finished attending the Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Mich. That goes on the list with the Holland Tulip Festival and the Virginia Apple Blossom Festival. One of his happiest afternoons in his first year at the White House was taking the Soviet cosmonauts to the Alexandria, Va., firemen's picnic...