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...boyhood home had tremendous elms," recalls John Hansel, 45, a New Jersey manufacturer of watercoolers. "Those trees were my symbols of the past." In fact, Hansel bought his present house in Riverside, Conn., mainly because four venerable elms shaded the front yard. Unfortunately, two of the trees soon died, victims of the Dutch elm disease that now kills about 1,000,000 trees a year in the U.S. Distraught, Hansel launched a personal crusade to save the threatened species. In 1965, unimpressed by the botanists who believed that the American elm was doomed, Hansel set up Elms Unlimited, which...
...Hansel was not the first to mount a scientific assault on elm disease. Experts have long known that it is caused by a fungus, carried by the elm-bark beetle, that clogs the tree's circulatory system. But ever since the disease hit the U.S. in the early 1930s, every cure has failed. DDT may kill birds as well as the beetles; another pesticide named Bidrin sometimes destroys the trees. Frantic elm owners have resorted to such quack remedies as turpentine injections or driving galvanized nails into the trunks (in hopes that the zinc oxide will deter the fungus...
...robber soon fall in love; but McQueen trusts no one, and to put Faye to the test he bitterly stages another heist. She counters with an ambush that leads to a surprise ending slightly less suspenseful than the one in the Hansel and Gretel affair...
...Hansel & Gretel. Though many weathermen are content to inform a viewer whose wet socks are drying on the radiator that it rained today, a few have won their audiences through ingenuity. In New York City, Tex Antoine, head seer at WABC, puts the "sugar coating on a rather dull subject" by using Uncle Wethbee, a cartoon drawing whose mustache droops or curls according to the climate. "Half the fun," says Antoine, affixing a black eye on Uncle Wethbee, "is explaining the reason why a forecast fails"; the other half is collecting $100,000 a year for not failing too often...
WNBC's Dr. Frank Field, the Manhattan fellow whom Johnny Carson accuses of using a Hansel and Gretel clock to make his predictions, is actually a doctor of optometry. And appropriately so, for where others see a high-pressure area, Field sees "cold air coming off the Great Lakes like a locomotive without brakes...