Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes, between the great actions in the yearly battle for food, Gus will putter about his fruit trees. He likes to look off east toward the Evangelical church, where, as a boy, during the interminable sermons, he traded jackknives behind the pews, and where rain, snow or shine the Kuesters still worship every Sunday. He likes to see the pine-and cedar-sheltered church graveyard, a tranquil reminder that the life which the earth gives must in the end return to the earth. There two generations of his neighbors and family are buried...
...Bear" very gloomily, and there is no doubt that it is. But a weapon more powerful than any atomic bomb are millions of despairing hearts-hearts of the peoples of all the nations of the world who had hoped 'that true democracy would be the fruit of this terrible struggle, and not more power politics...
...calloused, naked feet of shirtless Indians burned as they padded along the teeming Chandni Chauk. In the brassy glare, the flowering trees near the Viceroy's residence seemed to bear sparks rather than blossoms. The rind of an orange would shrivel the moment it was peeled from its fruit. Here & there an exhausted cow rested, sacred and undisturbed, in the traffic lanes of the boulevards...
Already Ganso Azul has brought new life into the Peruvian Montana. Indians who never saw a lamp come with bottles and even hollow canes for kerosene. With wicks stuffed into tin cans, they now have lights in their huts. A balanced diet of vegetables, fruit, beef, pork and chicken for the company's 250 employes has by example encouraged better living habits among other Indians...
Murray's hurry, beyond mere speed in his terpsichorean teachings, bore fruit with the advertisement which boasted that the school "has been approved to offer courses in social dancing. Ex-service men and woman who are eligible under the G.I. Bill of Rights may take this instruction in private or class lessons at their own convenience, during the day or evening...