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Blister rust symptoms: a circular, yellowish-orange patch or canker, ¼ in. in diameter, appears in the familiar fine-needle cluster of the white pine. The canker matures, in two to four years, into a festering blister, outlined by bile-green and pale yellow rings, exuding small drops of a yellow, poisonous fluid. Wherever this poison touches the bark, black or dark red scars appear. The following year these scars develop into new, white blisters, crammed with spores which the wind carries away for further propagation. The canker grows until the branch, and eventually the tree, sickens and dies...
History and Ruins. "I like New York. I have learned to like it. . . . Nowhere have I felt more free than in the midst of its crowds. . . . Here you may suffer the anguish of loneliness, but not that of crushing defeat. In Europe we . . . become attached to a cluster of houses, are captivated by a little corner of a street; and we are no longer free. But hardly have you plunged into New York than you are living completely in the dimensions of New York. . . . You will never be held by any of its streets, for none of them is distinguished...
...cluster of nuns settled among the spectators, and looked brightly around the old green and gilt hearing room. From the door, an aged Capitol policeman eyed them uneasily. The explosive Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill (national health insurance*) was up for another chewing by the Senate's Education & Labor Committee. Maybe the sisters should be warned, he thought...
...cluster his airplanes in such groups and positions that in an emergency they could not take the air for several hours, and to keep his antiaircraft ammunition so stored that it could not be promptly and immediately available, and to use his best reconnaissance system, the radar, only for a very small fraction of the day and night, in my opinion betrayed a misconception of his real duty which was almost beyond belief...
...down the ramp of the plane from China. Three months, almost to the hour, after he had left for Chungking, U.S. Special Envoy George Catlett Marshall was back in Washington. He had time for a broad, boyish grin and two kisses for his waiting wife, quick handshakes for a cluster of welcoming dignitaries. Then he hurried away, in a long black Packard, to report to the White House on the most significant mission undertaken by a U.S. citizen since the end of World...