Word: burdock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claimed to be enemies of the Union and hence of law and order." They disappeared into the hills and lived by rustling, moonshining and looting. But the vast majority of Confederate veterans went to work in the rubble of their ruined homes, on exhausted acres choked with nettles and burdock. The struggle was common to officers and men alike: "General Pendleton plowed his Lexington farm in clothes so ragged that passers-by took him for a hired hand. General Elliott peddled fish and oysters"-a forerunner of the host of apple-sellers of post-World War I. After Reconstruction, individual...
...complain about the weeds in your garden. Eat them. There is nothing quite like a tossed weed salad, preceded by an entree of burdock stems in batter, and topped off by cattail-pollen pancakes...
...east of Rzhev. On their backs they carried children too weak to walk or hold up their heads. A soldier, giving bread to a weeping, toothless, grey-haired woman, asked: "What's wrong, Babushka [Grandmother]?" The fields were tangled with tall, unmown yellow grass; meadows were snarled with burdock and thistle. The few remaining houses were stripped of logs and furniture. German soldiers had taken the wheels off baby buggies and used the prams for easy chairs; they had put their own pictures in Russian picture frames...