Word: peated
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...sprouted and began pushing out leaves last spring, no one was more surprised than Dr. George W. Harding of the National Capital Parks in Washington. The young plants looked perfectly normal. But the seeds, collected by a Japanese scientist named Ichiro Ohga, had been picked out of a Manchurian peat deposit and were claimed to be 50,000 years old. Most botanists were skeptical. The lotus seeds keep their vitality for a long time, they said, but 150 or 200 years is about the limit...
...rich Celtic twilight of William Butler Yeats and J. M. Synge has long since faded, but their disciples are still lighting little peat fires on the general bog of contemporary Irish literature. The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim...
Whenever the price takes a nip-up, there is a wild scramble in the offices of Lewis & Peat, the world's largest rubber brokers, whose daily turnover frequently reaches $90 million. In the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank's new million-dollar, air-conditioned office, an hour's business will see clerks and tellers chest-deep in bank notes...
...intoned rhythmical chants (sample: "Hey, you, work! You, get up!"). Dixie's Negroes put body & soul into their work songs. Volga boatmen were soothed by the haunting tautology of Ei Ukhnem. More recently, political prisoners in Nazi concentration camps composed and sang such songs as the now famous Peat-Bog Soldiers...
...week for the B-29s. Less than 24 hours after the Bermuda crash, two B-29s on a 13-plane training flight from Spokane collided in the midnight sky over Stockton, Calif., fell spinning into the rich peat lands of the San Joaquin River delta. Only three of 21 crew members parachuted to safety. Two days later a rescue plane taking off from Tampa, Fla. to join the Bermuda hunt spouted smoke and flames from its No. 4 engine, swung back to the field but plowed into the tideland muck 500 feet short of the runway. The toll: five dead...