Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haughtyculturist. In Gerrard's Cross, England, outraged when he found four of his favorite rhododendron bushes missing, Fernley F. Parker chained the remaining five to a nearby oak tree, put up a sign in red crayon: "The person who has now stolen four of my special rhododendrons from here is a despicable coward and thief...
Many a Bible Belt church found itself in a strange position this Christmas season: it was running out of poor. ¶In his little Oak Grove Baptist Church near Springfield, Tenn., the Rev. John Richard Christian found little use for the $40 he had raised for Christmas giving, in the end, used it for such charity as presents for shut-ins (though not necessarily poor ones...
...Oak Park...
...Americans are so naive," said the Heidelberg professor as he snifted his glass of Niersteiner Domtal '53 and indeed we are. Professor Doktor H. G. Glaubich, director of the university's foreign program, was at his usual position of honor at the venerable oak table in the Schnitzelbank inn, drinking, wheezing and expounding. The small group of students clustered about the master were breathing in the new German philosophy as blandly as they downed the latest Rhine vintages. And the eagerest of these were the "Amis...
...Damn right," said a vice president of a major New York book-publishing firm, leaning against the rough oak mantelpiece. "Boy, we even had him out for a, weekend last spring. He kept smashing his martini glasses into the pool. It wasn't safe to go swimming for days...