Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squirrels doggedly went on gathering nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony...
Next week the heavy oak doors will swing open on the Met's 62nd season. Out front there will be strapless gowns in the boxes, and straphangers in the gallery; backstage there will be extras in armor, seamstresses in a hurry and props in the way. A good many of the fur-wrapped natives in the Diamond Horseshoe will be there under the same grim or triumphal compulsion that gets them to church once a year for Easter services. A good many of the gallerygoers will clump up 119 steps like pious martyrs, sure that they are the only...
...town of Guernica, twelve miles northeast of Bilbao, is the ancient seat of Basque democracy. At the sacred Oak of Guernica (now a dried old stump), the Kings of Spain used to swear to protect Basque rights, whereupon the citizens would confer on the sovereign the title of Senor de Vizcaya...
Isotope Rush. One group of Oak Ridge scientists is already doing a growing business in radioactive isotopes. Every week, with elaborate precaution, they pull a lead plug from a hole in the massive concrete shield around the Clinton pile. Out comes a graphite bar studded with little aluminum cans of chemicals which have been exposed to the storm of neutrons raging inside the pile. These contain the isotopes for which the world of science is clamoring. Sealed in heavy lead shipping cases, they are rushed to hospitals and research laboratories...
...Oak Ridge scientists are sure that isotopes will have an enormous effect upon both science and industry. Most immediate use is as "tracers": delicate radioactive tags which allow a chemical substance to be followed step by step through an industrial process or the human body. Isotope enthusiasts believe that the tracers will explain the mysterious reactions inside living cells...