Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rabble of house dogs, joined in the search. The skirmishing took on the look of a Guatemalan revolution. Civil Air Patrol planes flew low. Cops, zookeepers, deputy sheriffs, volunteer gunmen and a detachment of Marine reservists with M-i rifles and walkie-talkie radios scoured the scrub-oak thickets, flushing out rabbits, house cats, and, occasionally, each other...
...whose total product for 1949 weighed less than 1/10,000th of an ounce. The weight of its average shipment is less than that of the graphite in a penciled signature; the container usually weighs a billion times more. Yet the products of this factory, the radioisotope plant at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have already revolutionized many branches of science...
Gris's colors were on the flat side-a patchwork of plush green, stained walnut, grey felt and golden oak-but his forms were as many-faceted as a fly's eye. Until his death (at 40) in 1927, he was a master practitioner of cubism as well as its best spokesman...
...from the sight of American soldiers pinching British womanhood, or -most "sinister portent" of all-"the spectacle of London without her railings. It was almost like seeing Queen Victoria without her clothes ... The parks . .. the sacrosanct squares . . . flung open to the vandal incursions of children and dogs." Even that oak of ages, the English language, had changed. Monica heard for the first time of such things as jazz, lounge lizards, isolationism, the Lambeth Walk, cocktails, robots, striptease, Hollywood and bright young thing...
Under the Oak Tree. At war's end Hap Arnold turned over his command to General Carl Spaatz with a laconic, "Take it, Tooey, it's all yours." He added defiantly: "I'm going out to my ranch in the Valley of the Moon to sit under an oak tree. From there I'll look across the valley at the white-faced cattle. And if one of them even moves too fast, I'll look the other...