Word: clusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife of the late multimillionaire Banker Jules Brulatour, came home to her four-story Manhattan house to find a few trinkets missing. Burglars had walked off with some $300,000 worth of uninsured jewels, $15,000 in cash and a $15,000 mink coat. Wearing a mink cape, a cluster of diamonds in her hair, and flashing a 23-carat, $100,000 diamond ring, she could not tell detectives for sure if anything else was stolen because "I have so much scattered around." The trinkets were recently taken from a bank vault, she explained, for a safer country hideaway...
During the week, the Pond is a place to study by, cluster to for a sunburn, and row on. Weekends, couples languish around it, properly dreamy, canoe on the Pond, occasionally go strolling through nearby Paradise Woods...
Behind one cluster of huts in a small gulch, the paratroopers had collected a bag of approximately 130 North Korean soldiers and a lone Chinese straggler. The P.W.s gaped at the drop zone, now bristling with the tanks, soldiers and guns of Task Force Growdon. Along the ridges and on the paddy fields within the paratroopers' perimeter lay some 300 dead North Korean Reds...
...truth of the mater is that genuine natural athletes just don't grow behind every ivy cluster. There are, granted, numerous individuals who excel at one sport and dabble in others...
...miles south of Hoengsong. A characterless little hump extending from the Wonju-Hoengsong road into barren stony mountains whose crevices gleam with snow, Hill 166 is distinguished only by a thin ruff of slender trees along the western slope, a high-tension wire standard on its crest, and a cluster of high Korean grave mounds on its southern slope...