Word: orchards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chestnut has been sold by commercial nurseries for some time in small quantities, but the Department of Agriculture is not interested in lawn or even orchard chestnuts. What it wants is a tree that will establish itself under forest conditions. If Castanea mollissima does so on a large scale, a side benefit may be an upsurge of wild turkeys, which once lived largely on chestnuts, and were greatly reduced in numbers when the blight killed the trees...
Between bouts with Russia's Jacob Malik, Chief U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Warren Austin hurried off to Burlington, Vt, put on the proper uniform (including a frayed shirt and striped galluses) for an inspection tour of his ripening apple orchard...
Then he sat down and obligingly pinpointed 22 of his own artillery pieces hidden in an apple orchard behind the Communist front lines. U.S. fighters and artillery promptly went to work on the orchard...
Soon afterwards, Korean soldiers appeared from a nearby apple orchard; Roy and his platoon assumed that they were the reinforcements. Not until the newcomers were almost on top of the U.S. foxholes did the G.I.s realize their mistake: the men were heavily armed Red troops. Seeing his men outnumbered 10 to 1, the lieutenant in charge of the platoon ordered the G.I.s to climb out of their holes with their hands...
...truth is that Playwright Logan has infused a touch of Yancy Loper into Chekhov, and what is heard at the end is the sound of the ax hacking the heart out of The Cherry Orchard. Yet the real trouble with The Wisteria Trees is not that it falls short of Chekhov, but that on its own terms it is so frequently blurred and limp...