Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plants (especially tomatoes), animals and people (if they eat heavily sprayed fruit or vegetables). But they have also learned that with care most of DDT's dangers can be avoided: e.g., bees, which are vulnerable to DDT, can be protected against poisoning by spraying fruit trees before they blossom...
Almost anyone can produce a convincing forgery with an old thieves' trick-copying a signature upside down.* But forgers who can amass riches are rare. As every detective-story reader knows, most such slippery geniuses blossom in foreign capitals. But last week, with pardonable pride, the Federal Bureau of Investigation added to the list of master forgers the name of Chicago-born Alexander D. L. Thiel (rhymes with steal...
...aging legs hold out, if they get one pitcher to help 21-game winner Bill Voiselle, the New York Giants might climb upstairs. The Philadelphia Phils must struggle along without their one power-hitter, Ron Northey; the Boston Braves can only hope that some of their 21 rookies will blossom; the 'Brooklyn Dodgers will try to get along on fanatical fan-enthusiasm and the league-leading (.357) bat of Dixie ("Pride of Flatbush") Walker...
PARTY LINE-Louise Baker-Whittlesey House ($2.50). Nostalgic glimpses of Mayfield, Calif, a generation ago show how Blossom Tramlin, the town menace, becomes the town heroine; how Miss Elmira stops a run on the bank by general blackmail. Soap opera sentiment and humor...
...dozens of planes are overhead, P-51s, P-38s, B-25s and P-40s. The first pursuit peels off. The bomb lets go and an orange flash and a grey puff of smoke blossom out. A few seconds later the sound reaches us-whambo-and the air rocks. The others follow in line, one after the other-flash, puff, whambo; flash, puff, whambo-until the last plane turns away...