Word: birched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threaten the four passengers in it, the Mounties radioed Grand Falls for help. More Mounties and provincial constables rushed to the scene. Police night sticks and loggers' crude clubs swung through the chilly air. Provincial Constable William J. Moss, 24, caught a blow on the head from a birch club, died in a hospital 30 hours later of a fractured skull and brain injuries...
...little (pop. 3,000) north German medieval town of Schoenfliess, where Paulus Tillich grew up, "one lived from Advent to Christmas to Pentecost. At Easter we children walked through the town with bundles of birch rods. It was the custom to beat the adults to get Easter eggs from them. Oh, how well I remember the wonderful fragrance of the fresh leaves!" At eight, Paul had his first brush with his future when "I encountered the conception of the Infinite." By the time he was 16, he knew he wanted to be a philosopher, and to this chancy calling...
There sat West Germany's roly-poly Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard being whipped with birch twigs when the phone rang...
...have the upbeat endings and moral preachments common to slick magazine fiction in the U.S. At their best, the stories are filled with the continuing Russian love of the vast land: there are hard gallops through Caucasian meadows, hunters' frosty dawns, quiet hours in the white nights and birch woods of the north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein of common humanity and still echo the old wonder of life, as when an aged wanderer in Loaf Sugar sighs: "It's a pity...
Paul LeComte 7G described important experiments in the field of high-pressure physical geology under the direction of Francis Birch, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, which are attempting to reveal the nature of unexplained structural discontinuities just below the earth's outer crust...