Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compared with the red-pepper frenzy and propaganda punch of the best Mexicans, the 24 Canadians represented seemed as remote from the rush of civilization as the glaciers, jack-pine forests and frozen lakes they liked best to paint...
Ahead lay the lake-speckled pine woods of Ontario, the island-dotted Lake of the Woods, the breath-taking Canadian Rockies, Banff and Lake Louise. But for two out of every five of the tourists, the goal was French Canada, the province of Quebec (bigger than Texas, Oklahoma, California and Utah together...
...crude, pine-slab cabin without bath or toilet, a little old lady sat silently peeling grapefruit one day last week. Presently a car pulled up the mountain road and honked. The old lady put down the paring knife, daintily touched a smidgen of rouge to her cheeks, clutched a wide-brimmed red straw sailor and climbed...
Deep in the oak and pine timberlands of the Southwest, a headsaw whined through the soft June night. Now & again the hooting of horned owls broke into the steady cough of the gasoline engine, the dull banging of the sawmill carriage, the slap, slap of cut slabs. At dawn, the fireflies and the old crew left the sawmill and the day gang took over...
Diminishing Returns. In Terre Haute, Ind., Candidates Perry Pine and Ivan Pugh tied at 100 votes each, asked for and got a recount, tied again...