Word: citrus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French machines, textiles and fertilizers might move southward again, in exchange for Spanish pyrites, copper and citrus fruit. Reflected the Gaullist France Libre: "Let's never play Don Quixote again. . . . By this silly closing of the frontier, we have lost an important market. . . . Others, more realistically minded than we, have taken our place. . . . Now we will have to reconquer the place we once held in Spain's foreign trade...
...provide.) Finally, one day last week, with only 96 more to Partition Day, the Security Council began discussions. There was no saying how long discussions would take. In Damascus, Arabs hinted that they would strike while U.N. was still talking, and along Palestine's coastal plain, Jewish citrus exporters saw confirming activity: Arab growers were unseasonably shipping out oranges of a type which will not ripen until April...
Even California was nipped. A heavy frost destroyed the coastal squash crop. In the back-country hills of Southern California, temperatures fell low enough to put icicles on avocado and citrus groves. Citrus crops were even harder hit by a continuing drought, now so severe that some communities were rationing water...
...Hollywood, Edith Gwynn's "Rambling Reporter" is called an orange-juice column. Its citrus-tart gossip, cinema news and gags are usually gulped at the breakfast table along with the columns of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons...
...spooning. A less active sport is "piping the flock," when Cal males watch Cal "quails" preening in the sun on the steps of Wheeler Hall. * The eight: Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, the agricultural college at Davis, a medical center in San Francisco, Mt. Hamilton, La Jolla and a citrus experiment station at Riverside. The last three are campuses only in the imaginative, California sense: they are mainly research centers. Not part of the University of California, and not state-owned: Stanford University (at Palo Alto), the University of Southern California (at Los Angeles), the California Institute of Technology...