Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most popular move on the sports front is the construction of the new tennis courts on Soldiers Field. The job was completed last fall with the planting of baby pine trees around the area. A whole new development is springing up behind the Business School, where more than 15 new courts will soon be available for tennis...
...Their Fellow Men. The final piece in this book is a study of the loyalty of an entire French village in the Vosges Mountains. In August 1944 the author, an intelligence officer with a British parachute detachment, dropped into the pine forests surrounding the village. The Germans knew that the hills held marauding Maquis and parachutists, but they never knew how pitifully few there were. Every man in the village could have told them. Accordingly, the Gestapo rounded up all the men in the village-210-and sent them to concentration camps, where 140 of them perished. Not one betrayed...
...Pine Mountain, 37 miles from Columbus, Ga., a group of men awaited their initiation into the Ku Klux Klan one night last week. One by one they were summoned, unsheeted, into a tar-paper shack to "take the obligation." When the last man had been called, three still remained outside. They had not been invited; they were three newsmen from the Columbus Ledger who had been tipped that this was to be the biggest Ku Klux Klan gathering around Columbus in 20 years...
...little village of Bebenhausen, in the French zone of Germany, Herr & Frau Stuckebrock lived a quiet life. Stucke-brock, 51, plowed and planted part of a onetime German Army parade ground nearby. His wife made Christmas tree decorations and other knickknacks from colored paper and pine cones. One night last week, a group of U.S., French and German police aroused them at midnight. Stuckebrock leaped for his coat. A German policeman stopped him before he got a poison vial. Under guard, the two former Nazi leaders were taken away...
Pits & Hotel Rooms. Even though banned everywhere but in Florida, the "sport" goes on all over the U.S.-in hotel rooms and in portable pits in barns or pine groves. The sport supports four trade magazines, jammed with announcements of fights and advertisements of gaffs, sparring muffs, conditioning coops...