Word: birched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under a white birch tree near a brook sat a young man writing poetry. Occasionally, when the words on paper somehow refused to echo the music in his mind, he wept. The place was Molodi, a village 38 miles from Moscow, and the time was the year of peace 1913. The quiet gardens surrounding his parents' summer house, legend had it, had once served as a battlefield for the Czar's Cossacks and Napoleon's retreating French. Near by, graves dotted the ground...
...Territory of Conscience. In far-off Peredelkino, in his fir-and birch-engirdled, two-story dacha 15 miles southwest of Moscow, Boris Pasternak was mute but not inglorious. Against the sky he could see silhouetted the blue, oniontop cupolas of the village Orthodox Church, symbol of the Christian faith that enables his hero, Dr. Yurii Zhivago, to endure the torment, humiliations, sins and tragedy of war and revolution. On the walls of his study glow the illustrations that his artist-father drew for Resurrection by the great Tolstoy, whom Boris Pasternak has called "the territory of conscience." On that territory...
...midfield situation will depend on Parks' ability to run tomorrow, but if he is anywhere near top condition he will play first midfield with Dave Birch and Charlie Devens. If he can't run all the time he will be relieved by Jerry Cotter or Jerry Pyle. Manuel Cabral, Larry Connell and Mike Rockefeller will pay second midfield. The defense will be Jim Herscot, John Baldwin and Bob Shaunessy or Keyes. The freshman lacrosse team will attempt to put a successful finish on a season of amazing improvement when it meets the Bullpups at New Haven tomorrow...
...Mallonee, Nick Lamont and Jerry Pyle will comprise the main attack, with Andy Leaf and Fran Loewald along for support. The first midfield is tentatively set at Dave Birch, Jerry Cotter and Charlie Devens...
...Crimson pulled to a 3-0 halftime advantage on the strength of markers by Pyle and Mallonee in the first quarter and a bouncing shot by Mallonee in the second. Dave Birch scored on a long screened shot at 2:29 of the third period, before MacKinnon's shutout was ruined when Bob Shaunessy dropped the ball in front of an empty cage on an attempted clear...