Word: abounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dysentery laid many low. Dead were buried in graves blasted out of the volcanic rock. Loneliness also took its toll. Stories abound about the way men called the rocks by name and greeted goats as friends...
Quickie strikes abound, and an Army officer recently complained that the holidaying Koreans had thought up a Fifth Freedom - freedom from work. Absentee ism can easily be overcome, but raw materials must come from the north (again, the 38th parallel...
...azure waters of the Pacific Ocean. It has an area of seventy miles . . . two well-equipped beer halls ... a population of 1,800 people, all Godfearing, self-respecting souls [who] pay their taxes promptly. . . . [Its] lambs graze on the carpets of wild violets with which the grazing areas abound, giving a distinctive and delicate flavor to the meat...
...seems odd that the French, whose history and literature so abound with freedom of expression as far as sex is concerned, should use sexual morality as the discriminatory basis for meting out punishment...
...weather lands of the South Pacific abound with broad-snouted weevils. The weevils ruin ordinary rice before the men get it. But the Quartermaster's Office can put "converted rice" into any kind of bag, ship it to New Guinea or Saipan and never worry about weevils because the milling process makes each grain so slick and hard the weevil can't make a dent in it. It can be stored indefinitely...