Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whereas General Zwicker's record of service to his country includes combat action which has brought him many decorations and honors, including the Silver Star, Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters and Arrowhead, British Distinguished Service Order, French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre...
...office wall, a framed anonymous quotation says: "Oh, God, don't let me weaken. Help me to continue on. And when I go down, let me go down like an oak tree felled by a woodsman...
...that will cut down McCarthy's power will have to be a lot sharper than those in the hands of Stevens & Co. last week. That mighty oak must be approached with caution; it is covered with Toxicodendron radicans, i.e., poison...
Metallurgists J. F. Nachman and W. F. Buehler of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Md. were working on a hard, magnetic alloy called 16-Alfenol. They reported to their boss, Carroll W. Lufcy, that it was not only magnetic but heat-resistant. So the three of them set about emphasizing the alloy's unexpected heat resistance, avoiding scarce materials...
...community that has reared the "Spreading Chestnut Tree," Election Oak, Whitefield Elm and Rebellion Tree would not let the Washington Elm go to the dogs. As it grew old, Cambridge doctored the tree with tar and splints. In 1874, one resident wrote, "its crippled branches swathed in bandages, its scars where, after holding aloft for a century their outstretched arms, limb after limb has fallen nerveless and decayed." The molting season was on, and lasted until 1923, when a workman, while removing a dead branch, pulled down the Elm with...