Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...successful truffle-hunting friend of Dr. Rogers, Lorenzo Robba of The Bronx, learned about truffles in Italy, and has since imported truffle dogs to exploit the natural trufflries (usually oak forests) of New York and New Jersey. Truffle dogs, according to Robba, belong to no special breed. Dogs of mixed ancestry do as well as bluebloods, but such large, muscular breeds as German shepherds are apt to take off after rabbits. Much better are small, snuffly dogs with a good scent and a spirit of cooperation...
...year-old Peekskill (N.Y.) Military Academy, Head Chef James Hankins is almost as much a tradition as the oak at the corner of the parade ground which once served as a gallows, for a Revolutionary War spy. White-capped James, a Virginia-born Negro who has been known to generations of Peekskill cadets, has a simple explanation for his steady popularity. "Good cooking is the main thing with boys...
...head lines that Gambler Frank Erickson was coming - and they baked him a cake. Four days after the pudgy-faced bookmaker told a Senate committee that he was earn ing $100,000 a year from the rackets, Manhattan's District Attorney Frank S. Hogan raided Erickson's oak-paneled Park Avenue office suite. Armed with a warrant, the D.A.'s men spent a leisurely day riffling through the files, trucked away five drawers and three cartons full of canceled checks, stubs, diaries and receipts dating back 14 years...
Lindsey lent out 37 horns, sold eight more at $3 each. Then 60 hunters sallied forth one night last week. For eight hours they stumbled through scrub-oak thickets, squawking dismally. Turkey went along in his campaign suit (double-breasted gabardine) and tan oxfords, stepped gingerly around rain puddles...
...facing each other with explosive hate. If war broke out there, "the fat would be in the fire." Burma, he found, lived in fear of what could happen on her frontier zone. Siam (see cover), with 3,000,000 Chinese, was "more like a willow than an oak...