Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Banker York swung into a rocky lane leading to the highway, he saw a man standing beneath a roadside live oak tree. Then he saw the gun in the man's hand...
Cold, drizzling rain dashed the white blooms of the spiraea bushes outside the yellow clapboard cottage. Inside, behind drawn shades, 94-year-old Martha Truman dozed fitfully. In the next room, the President of the U.S. sat working at the Mission oak library table. It was just a week since Harry Truman got the sudden telephone call which brought him hurrying to his mother's side...
When science hatched the atomic age, moralists and politicians were handed some frightful problems. A different sort of problem is now nagging the scientists themselves: what to do with the deadly radioactive waste products turned out by all the chain-reacting piles? Last week Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, an Oak Ridge physicist, admitted that the problem of this lethal garbage has become serious...
Some of the dangerous isotopes are now being stored in concrete boxes until they can be dumped far out at sea. Others are buried deep under deserts. Others are slowly and carefully being dissipated in the atmosphere. At Oak Ridge, some of the hot stuff is periodically dumped into White Oak Creek. Part of it sinks to a swamp bottom; the rest, much diluted, goes into the Clinch River-with the hope that radioactive fish will not get loose...
...poppy of the Veterans of Foreign Wars' 1947 sale from six-year-old Saundra Fay Hall, gave her in return a little silver sombrero he had picked up in Mexico. Later that afternoon he drove over to the Bethesda Naval Hospital to pin a Medal of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster on ailing, aging former Secretary of State Cordell Hull...