Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...negotiations with A.T. & T. dragged along without sign of bearing fruit. Company officials made no counter wage offers, refused every effort to place the bargaining on an industrywide basis...
...masses of junk, pierced by winding tunnels. As they cleared passageways the police found five pianos, a library containing thousands of books on law and engineering, ancient toys, old bicycles with rotting tires, obscene photographs, dressmaker's dummies, heaps of coal, and ton after ton of newspapers-the fruit of three decades of hoarding...
...full effects on the victims' descendants may not show up for many generations (atomic radiation usually changes only recessive genes, and the effects, if any, should not show up until a recessive mates with a recessive). The investigators hunted for mutations among Hiroshima's fast-breeding fruit flies and plants-with inconclusive results. But they did receive reports of malformed babies (most of them born dead). The doctors were not able to make an accurate count, but they strongly suspected that some Hiroshima and Nagasaki mothers have secretly killed and disposed of grotesque offspring...
...ever to find within itself some sign or hope of moral rebirth. As Paul Hutchinson reported after his world tour (LIFE, March 10), people in every nation have the same "new longing to explore the possibilities of a spiritual interpretation of reality," all other interpretations having yielded such barren fruit. In the U.S., church membership (72 million) is at an alltime high. Not for decades has religion enjoyed so much friendly curiosity...
...Utopian experiment consisted chiefly in following the Wordsworthian principles of "plain living and high thinking." Shunning his parents' wealthy house, FitzGerald rented a small cottage in Suffolk, where he lived for 16 years with a dog, a cat and a parrot. His staple diet was bread, fruit, cheese and fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr...