Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farm wives blanched at the rumor. For years, the stout, fast-color flour sack, paisley, checked, flowered or striped, had been as important as its contents. Mothers had turned the sacks into housedresses, children's playsuits, shorts, curtains, bedspreads and towels. Cried one Red Oak, Ga., wife: "We can live on crackers and cornbread if we have to. But we can't send our children to school naked...
Zeus's Olympian family, crudely hacked out of oak and olive trunks, took possession of every sacred grove during the next four dark centuries (1100 B.C.-700 B.C.). But not until the Dorians began cutting down their oaks to build ships did marble and bronze bring immortality to their gods...
...Added two Oak Leaf Clusters to Air Forces General Henry H. Arnold's Distinguished Service Medal-for creating and expanding the air corps program...
...humorous dozens of cracker-barrel stories. There are shrewd estimates of hundreds of obscure people, cowhands, politicians, maiden aunts, Indians, legalites, buffalo hunters, dirt farmers. There is a bloated recapitulation of human knowledge (all set down as revelation), from casual botanical observations ("a three-leaf plant, like the poison Oak, is usually poisonous [but] a five-leaf plant like ... the Virginia Creeper is never poisonous") to startling historical discoveries (Egypt's "pyramids were constructed in order to satisfy groups and blocks...
...process worked. Nevertheless they turned out hundreds of acres of such screens. The notable contribution of Chrysler was something which sounded simple-nickel-plating the all-important pipes. The trick that had to be done was to nickel-plate them inside. Not until Chrysler turned the trick could Oak Ridge operate...