Word: arbutus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raise funds. But he spent most of the next 13 years doing just that. (Notable catch: $200,000 from the Saturday Evening Post's George Horace Lorimer '98.) By 1942, when Johnson retired, the first of Colby's new Georgian buildings blossomed amid the trailing arbutus on Mayflower Hill...
However, since the day I read my children your story about gremlins, the neighbors' cows have broken down the stone walls to eat up all our apples, our own calf broke loose and chewed up dozens of precious trailing arbutus plants, and a strange horse, whose owner we've not yet found, trampled through the nursery flower beds and ate up half of our vegetable garden...
...vespers had been carried away, to be melted down for the Nazi war machine. Priceless icons, illuminated manuscripts handed down from Byzantine emperors, and religious treasures* had been gathered as loot and shipped to Berlin. These things had driven them, sick at heart, from beloved mountain valleys thick with arbutus and carefully laid out for the husbanding of vineyards and olive groves within sight of the slopes of Mt. Olympus and the plains of Troy. At the islands where their boat touched, peasants fed them and gave them shelter...