Word: birching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white nights" of May, Leningrad is particularly beautiful, with the sky aglow from Arctic lights and the birch trees in the parks shining against the dark earth. Students study at their windows, needing no artificial light; sometimes they go out and stroll along the embankment behind the Winter Palace (now the Palace of Art), where, across the Neva, they can see the great bulk of the Peter and Paul Fortress, in which are buried many Tsars. Along the Prospect of the 25th of October (the Nevsky Prospect of Tolstoy's heroes' time) sparrows are thick in the trees...
...better-known "Mountaineer Poet," Jesse Stuart, Still makes his child's world as bright as a new dime. It was not a world in which dimes were common. On the barren slope above Blackjack Mine, Bracky Baldridge owned a garden patch, a shack with puncheon floors, a black birch tree. When the mines along the creek closed one March, Bracky's no-good cousins, Harl and Tibb Logan, came to live with the Baldridges. The dried beans ran out fast. Then soft, lazy Uncle Samp came and stayed, his thin grey mustache so long he wrapped the ends...