Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oak-Paneled Room. Under the nose of the U.N.'s Good Offices Committee, which had been trying to negotiate a settlement, Stikker broke off the parley and took his team back to The Hague. There, in an oak-paneled room of the Ministry of Justice, the cabinet held many grave and sharply divided sessions. A royal decree was promulgated, setting up a provisional Indonesian federation which did not include the republic. Everyone knew that the decree could not be enforced without military action. The Socialists were opposed to fighting (the royal family was said to be against it also...
...stop eating ennything, wont nothing and no one. I am riting let you no he no good. He might be living when you get hear and then he might not." A few hours later, when the coons and possums and mean grey foxes began to move through the scrub oak and cedars, Ella added a postscript: "Popa pass tonight. Will funeali him Friday...
...wife wanted to go bowling that evening, so Henry Toy Jr., a Du Pont executive, went to the Parent-Teacher Association meeting himself. He learned a thing or two. The public school in Oak Grove, Del., where his five-year-old son went, was so crowded that the kids had to wait in line to get into the bathroom. Were conditions that bad in other Delaware schools? He learned that they were generally far worse...
...experts for any special honors. That was to come later at Michigan, which he entered in 1939. As a freshman, he played halfback. In fact it wasn't until 1942 that he switched to end, playing 50 minutes or more of every game with the famous "Seven Oak Posts", who helped wallop Don Forte's Harvard team 35-7 at Ann Arbor. "I can remember Cleo O'Donnell and Wally Flynn in that game," Madar recalls. And they undoubtedly remember the fivefoot eleven, 170-pound Wolverine end who intercepted a Crimson pass and ran 45 yards for a touchdown...
Plenty is going on behind the U.S. atomic curtain, and once in a while a trickle of rumor, correct or incorrect, leaks through. Last week David M. Poole, an engineer working at Oak Ridge with NEPA (Nuclear Energy for Propulsion of Aircraft), gave an exciting hint to the Baltimore Society of Automotive Engineers...