Word: buds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first night there she stumbled through the snow to the shattered summerhouse in the ruins of her family home. "Cautiously she made her way to the summerhouse, found the door and sank to the floor, pulling the sack off her shoulders and fumbling for a match. The pale yellow bud of the flame gave her the tiny refuge, rich in cobwebs and dust. A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench. Overhead the roof caved in rather drunkenly. 'But it is a roof,' Frossia said, pushed the bolt in the small door, supped...
...Lean, grizzled old Lawyer W. S. ("Bud") Taylor sat back from making out income tax returns (at $3 each) and pulled on his pipe. "These boys are really rolling in dough this year. When the Lord gets around to raining on this land, it'll raise anything...
...Forces in the European Theater got a new No. 1 fighter pilot last week: Captain Walker ("Bud") Mahurin. His three kills in the second U.S. raid on Berlin boosted his score...
Boisterous, boyish (25) Bud Mahurin was a mediocre student at Fort Wayne (Ind.) High School because he spent too much time tinkering with motors. He learned to fly during two years of engineering study at Purdue. Holder of the D.S.C. and D.F.C., Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, he did not achieve top-scoring distinction easily. He flew his Republic Thunderbolt on 28 missions over Nazi territory before making his first kill...
...classical recording library built up, the network obliged. But the most famous request to date came from Lieut. General Mark Clark, who phoned to ask what was playing. Told that it was Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, he asked for some Hawaiian music. "Who's this calling, bud?" asked the announcer. "General Clark." said the General. He quickly got Aloha...