Word: coniferous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The "Pines of Honduras" had taken root. Hondurans circulated by the hundreds mimeographed translations of TIME'S story (Jan. 21) about a sprig of conifer as the emblem of democratic resistance to Dictator Carias' regime. Cariasistas, deciding that something had to be done, called on Congress to pick...
Many of these tales have been told before in other lands, in other tongues. Ali Baba, Aladdin, Big Klaus and Little Klaus and many others are here in naturalized form. But the background of these Russian stories is the vast steppes, the dark conifer forests, the softly falling snow. They...