Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sullen summer heat, strikes smouldered into flame like scattered forest fires. To spotters in the Bureau of Labor Statistics there was nothing new in this-the spark of labor unrest always kindles fastest in summer, when men are irritable, when contract negotiations deadlock, when picketing is most comfortable. But after more than three years of use, the slow fire apparatus of the War Labor Board was sadly worn. In Akron, Ohio, the nation's rubber capital, there was proof that the U.S. had only one certain method of extinguishing stubborn strikes -a Presidential order for seizure of plants...
...clinic intoxicated are absolutely untrue. Nevertheless, Madame Ciano occasionally does behave in a rather bizarre way. For instance, she likes to walk around barefoot like a gipsy and occasionally at night she will jump from her window into the garden for a stroll in the park and forest...
...Forest. Mexico's Alfonso Garcia Robles averred that the right of any one of the Big Five to veto Security Council action created "a system of order in the forest which will keep the mice in order, but not the lions...
...Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, the small boy in Cheyenne, Wyo. who got a month-early Christmas party last year when everyone thought he was dying, looked forward to his fourth birthday July ii. Now fit, chipper and feeling like a new boy, six months after a life-saving operation, he pedalled around for news photographers on his velocipede (see cut), one of his houseful of Christmas presents from sympathetic newspaper readers...
...applauding as loudly as if academic degrees were something new in the family, stood Mary Myrtle Moulton's seven brothers, including 1) Harold G. Moulton, 61, Ph.D., eight times LL.D., author of a dozen-odd books on economics and finance, president of the Brookings Institution in Washington; 2) Forest Ray Moulton, 73, Ph.D., LL.D., twice Sc.D., secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; 3) Elton J. Moulton, 57, M.A., Ph.D., onetime dean of the graduate school and now head of the mathematics department at Northwestern University; 4) Earl L. Moulton, 66, onetime public-school teacher...