Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mixed blessings of world leadership is the U.S. preoccupation with its many and varied allies. Around the volatile Italians, the politically neurotic French and the sensitive Spaniards, there is never a dull moment. Even those stout hearts of oak, the British, sometimes lash about and quiver like the restless bamboo...
While shuddering for my children, I am, at 65, glad that I shall not live in the shade of that newly sprouting oak on your cover...
...workmen overhauling the town sewer solved part of the problem by inadvertently digging up Cesare. The disinterred Borgia bones were shrouded in a casket of silver and oak and placed in the town hall, while the ancient debate raged with new fury. Time passed; an old priest died, and a younger priest took' over; an old mayor died, and a younger mayor took his office; both agreed that it was time to end the ancient rift and to give Cesare a decent burial...
Since his decision to go to Oak Ridge, Rickover's life has been a battle to get the Navy and the atom together. It was a battle of a type that has been fought before-between the necessary conservatism of a military organization and the equally urgent necessity to keep it up to date...
Villainous Battery. Rickover had a vision. At Oak Ridge, he and his little command of four eager young officers painfully fought their way through mathematical entanglements to the strongholds where dwelt the atom. They came to the conclusion that the Navy, to remain a vital fighting force, must have nuclear propulsion, and that the logical place to apply it first was in submarines...