Word: groves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assault on Strong Points. Next morning, Willkie was again seated at an important breakfast. This time at the Coconut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel, he was principal speaker at the opening of Los Angeles' War Chest drive. Again Willkie was an added starter, as the breakfast had been long planned. It was not a political speech, but it gave him an opportunity to address 1,000 influential Angelenos...
When Sam is home he helps in the chores, visits in the Bonham general store, rides about the ranch to inspect his 200 white-faced cattle. Sam's favorite spot is the one-story ranch house, nestled in a grove of oak trees. Here is no telephone, no mail delivery; only a yawning fireplace, walnut beds, and electric stove for steak broiling and an old-fashioned icebox, usually filled with watermelons. Here, on the hot summer afternoons, Sam Rayburn lolls around, often in his shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence...
Eager faces turned toward Boston with a set of preconceived conceptions--beans, cods, Cabots, Scollay Square, Cocoanut Grove, some place called Radcliffe, life overlooking the "Yahd," steeped in scholarship--but we soon discovered that we were still in the Navy...
Requests and Rations. It was not the first U.S. use of penicillin for a civilian (among several hundred who have received it were some victims of the Boston Coconut Grove fire), but it was by far the most publicized. Within a few hours after the nation's press had picked up Patricia's story, requests for penicillin began to pour into WPB, the Army, the White House. Only a few applicants, with diseases for which penicillin has been proved effective,* got it (one who did died nonetheless...
...hundreds burned in Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire last November, all who had deep burns on more than 30% of their bodies died - except one. Last week that amazing survivor, a 22-year-old Coast Guardsman named Clifford Johnson who had 55% of his skin burned, was recovering. Doctors reported the treatment had made medical history...