Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then did his heart stir when moss and ivy grew green on the ruins of the towns, and under the broken tracery of vaulted cathedrals the bats fluttered in the moon. . . . Wherever the structures raised by the ordered life of man began to crumble, his brood sprang up like mushroom spawn...
...stood for snow and ice. Snow and ice, Vag mused, ice and glasses. Not too much water, he cautioned. No more lethargic lectures, and endless doodling until the bell rang. Soon the bells would be ringing all the time, and breakfast would move up into afternoon, and weekends would mushroom into whole weeks. Tow whole weeks, in fact. He wondered why he wasn't gong skiing all two weeks, and as he herringbone up the library steps, the reason dawned. Christmas. Sure enough...
...merely appropriating a more sizable sum to its course catalogue, could perform the same needed service for every department in the College. But until that far-distant date when the University sees the greatness of the need, it would be nice to see the Social Relations Society's plan mushroom into a group of similar projects in other departments...
Bill Bingham said the Bowl's steel goalposts cost $1,800, were mushroom shaped underground to prevent uprooting, and were covered with grease to keep would-be climbers on the ground...
Composer Bloch was too ill to make the 3,000-mile trip from his cliff-hung home on the Oregon coast to the festival, but he was not too ill to compose. He spends his days combing the beach looking for agates, and mushroom-hunting in the salal and salmonberry woods nearby. In the huge living room of his house, near a life-size woodcarving of Christ, he works nervously, but neatly, as always, on a piano concerto. He and his wife Marguerite find time to play with his half-dozen cats. Says he: "We can learn much from them...