Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the next few hours, he hurried on to confer with the Cabinet and the Military Committee of NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization), dressed in well-creased pinks and OD jacket with a single row of ribbons (the Distinguished Service Medal with three Oak Leaf clusters, the Navy's Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit). Then he was ready for his first public report to the nation...
Harvard has a new tree, sans root, fruit or leaf. Overnight it sprang to its full height of 27 feet in the new graduate-center quadrangle. Walter Gropius, famed professor in Harvard's department of architecture, designed the center and commissioned the tree from Richard Lippold, a Manhattan sculptor. Constructed of steel rods, it is intended to represent nothing less than "the world...
Spring has been assigned many desirable qualities. It has been variously cast as the season for love, for dreaming, for turning over a new leaf, for planning, for starting off-with a clean slate. This spring, we fear, will be a season for scrounging...
...newspaper advertisements and in mailed leaf-lets, the melancholy faces of cocker spaniels and kittens have recently appeared to ask you for mercy. Their appeals are translated into English by the anti-vivisection societies, now embarked on a new crusade to keep pets from the torture chambers of Cruel Science. The text accompanying the melancholy faces tells you that the trusting friend of another child has fallen into the clutches of the "remorseless experimenters...
...school, the rotting windowsills had to be propped up with sticks. In the Broad River School, "on the side of a winding road that climbs a mountain and becomes impassable in bad weather," the boys had to bring water "from a leaf-lined hole." For restrooms, the girls used "a crude privy; boys, the woods . . . The [school] building is about 40 years old. It leans slightly to the left...