Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...created in direct answer to the Psalmist's question: How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? For the land in which the slaves found themselves was strange beyond the . fact that it was foreign. It was a nocturnal land of vast, shadowy pine woods, vast fields of cotton whose endless rows converged sometimes on a solitary cabin, vast swamps reptilian and furtive-a land alive with all the elements of lonely beauty, except compassion. In this deep night of land and man, the singers saw visions; grief, like a tuning fork, gave...
Although none of the young women were exactly up in arms, many felt that it definitely, did not ameliorate their marital chances. "Can't they wait until they get home," asked Misa Mary Jo Kindig, Pine Manor '48. "There are three million extra women in the states right now, and I'm one of them...
...Sunday stroll in Rome's weedy Villa Borghese, three Stars and Stripes staffers compared ambitions, found that they didn't pine to go home after...
...going to be a four-by-six-ft. sign set in a lattice frame and I'm going to put it in the yard in front of the house by that tall pine tree-sixty feet high, it is-that the Trumans planted the day the President was born. Folks will be able to see it from highway 160 and from the Missouri Pacific depot both. The depot's just a block away...
...Seven, Alexander Jackson, once tried to explain why their roughhewn version of Paris' impressionism was just the thing for painting Canada. Wrote he: "From sunlight in the hardwoods with bleached, violet-white tree trunks against a blaze of red and orange, we wander into the denser spruce and pine woods where the sunlight filters through; gold and silver splashes playing with startling vividness on a birch trunk or patch of green moss. Such a subject would change entirely in ten minutes, and unless the first impression was firmly adhered to, the sketch would end in confusion...