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Word: comfrey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sister Peggy Comfrey, co-chairman of the committee, said the drive will cover Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Maine and "will seek signatures from Jordan Marsh customers as they enter and exit the stores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Collects Signatures Against J.P. Stevens Products | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

...most of his food. "Funny thing," says Bishop Topel. "I've only bought one packet of seeds in the ten years I've lived here." That first packet apparently gave him a flying start on the rows of beans, peas, carrots, squash, turnips, potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes and comfrey, an herb he mainly uses for tea, that now fill his garden. Neighbors often help with the staples. "I like certain things," admits the bishop, and the word gets around. "But it is literally correct that I have not paid one penny for food for my house for the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Spokane: A Pauperish Yet Princely Churchman | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

...from Japan was drunk and coconuts were cracked with hammers and given to dogs. But the piece of resistance of the engagement feast was a vast baked pumpkin, so large it had barely squeezed in and out of Merilee's oven, and filled with breadcrumbs and a surprise, with comfrey and tomatoes, with currants and dill and with a delicious white powder from the cabinet which not even Merilee could identify; and when the love of her twenty-three summers, Sam Sam the sculptor man and manager of motor hotels and graduate of the world's second most prestigious business...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

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