Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sculptor, Johann Gottfried Schadow. But it caught the admiring eye of Napoleon as he rode in triumph through the gate in 1806, and the conqueror ordered it carted off to Paris. Brought back again by the Prussians in 1815 (when it acquired an iron cross surrounded by an oak leaf topped by an eagle), it remained in place until Russian artillery knocked it to scrap during the Battle of Berlin in World...
Bent over his drafting board at an Army Engineers' installation in Alexandria, Va., Private Norman L. Hickey, 27, felt a sudden tightening around his chest -"as though someone had been screwing down a metal band around it, and I was shaking like a leaf." He worked on. Next day, too nauseated to eat, Hickey felt the tightness return. He gave up, went on sick call. Doctors, unable to decide what ailed him, even sent him to a fever isolation ward before he ended up in the cardiac clinic of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Because his case was so tricky...
...Leaf and the Beard...
...Tour scheme is not applicable, we cannot get away from the kinship between beards and autumn leaves First there is the matter of dryness. The pedigreed leaf is quite dry and usually somewhat curled around the edges. This curling is also a universal characteristic of beards, as is dryness. The two exceptions to the latter statement are those who follow the Old Teutonic custom of staining the beard with bits of food, and those too youthful to have the necessary manual dexterity. King Richard III was an example of this fully-haired baby, but his birth is the exception...
Leaving out the beard-stainers, color still forms a link between the leaf and the beard. Sunlight induces the light coloration of leaves and exerts a similar bleaching influence on the chin-whiskers. Later, with the sun's recession in the fall, leaves and beards take on mottled appearance...