Word: luff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he found himself at Stalag Luff I in Germany, Greening was "sort of worn out from the going over the Gestapo gave me." There was nothing at all to do, and Greening discovered that "from inaction the guys were going around the bend. So after a while I tried to work up a craft committee, but still some of them stayed in their sacks all the time...
Crepe for Color. The Germans did not encourage art at Stalag Luff I. Greening had to be resourceful. "We used our own hair for paintbrushes," he recalls. "We baked twigs to make drawing charcoal. Coffee made dye. We boiled crepe paper and can labels to get color for paints...
...Luff: tender Swedish emotion...
...thorough, meticulous. As a boy he became interested in falconry; by 16 he was writing learned articles on the ancient sport. At 41, while commander of the post at Aden, he took up sailing; and read every book he could get until he had mastered every salty trick of luff and leech. Also at Aden, he became interested in photography; and cared so much for detail that he went into micro-pictures, snapping miniature plants and shells...