Word: groves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spark." He loves volunteer firefighting, has wangled a fire department sign for his car so he can drive right up to the fire lines. He also carries an honorary police commissioner's gold badge, likes to loaf around police headquarters. During Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, in which 492 died, Fiedler was stationed at a morgue. During the war, like many other Bostonians over military age, he took his turn on small Coast Guard Auxiliary craft patrolling Boston Harbor...
Philbrick said that Martha Fletcher, wife of Harold A. Fletcher 3G, gave such instructions to a five-member Communist party unit which met in her home at 15 Grove Street, Boston. Using "The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" as a text, Mrs. Fletcher defined an unjust war as one occurring between the United States and Russia, Philbrick said...
...months ago, the 2,000-tree lemon and orange grove of Gabriel Ramirez, near Valles, on the Pan American Highway, was a rich and blooming place. Last week, like most orchards in the lush, hot valley, Ramirez' trees were soot-black with the leaf-ravaging larvae of the mosca prieta (citrus black...
Allport cited the study of Dr. Erich Lindemann of the Massachusetts General Hospital after the Cocoanut Grove fire to illustrate that continued suppression of feelings often produces strain and tension in the individual personality. He added that such a state can develop into a complex of a serious order...
Miss Betty Ann Grove, singer in the Balinese Room of the Hotel Somerset, came to sing at the Union for A. Holmes Fetheroff. Although she was turned away, Fetheroff said she "wasn't at all angry...