Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greatest Profession. One autumn day in 1921, "expecting to be met by the headmaster demanding the past participles of French verbs," Thornton arrived on the oak-studded campus near Trenton, N.J. There, for six years, while his expatriate contemporaries were scribbling and scrounging on the Left Bank, Wilder nursed and nudged a generation of Lawrenceville boys. "I am the only American of my generation," says he, "who did not go to Paris...
...apartment, Fehlauer quickly laid his wife down and slammed the door in the soldiers' faces. A neighbor, hearing angry Russian voices, called the West Berlin police. A patrol car swung into the Edelhofdamm, and out leaped Patrolman Herbert Bauer, his Browning drawn. The Russians took cover behind an oak tree outside the apartment house. One of the Russians dropped Bauer with four submachine gun slugs. Over his dead body that Christmas morning, police and Russians fought for 20 minutes until the carbines of the West's riot squad drove the Russians back into their own zone...
...Golden Oak Leaves with Swords and Diamonds to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...
...Department of Buildings and Grounds will plant the first of three oak trees this week. The oaks replace elms taken down recently by the Department after they became afflicted with Dutch Elm disease...
ROBERT M. CRANE, 35, Episcopalian; mortally wounded by enemy shellfire on March 11, 1952. He was awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster (in lieu of a second Bronze Star) for heroism...