Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called a meeting in Hampton's grey agricultural hall. Farmers drove in from miles around. Villagers turned out by the score. Colonel Ryder told them: Hampton should erect a factory to turn out "rounds and squares" (chair rungs, desk legs) from nearby stands of spruce, cedar, pine and birch. The factory would serve as a memorial to 18 Hamptonians who had died in World War II. It would provide jobs for about 50 of Hampton's 187 overseas veterans...
...melancholy 1946 the Emperor took more care in setting the theme-"Snow on the Pine...
Hondurans sported pine sprigs in their lapels, grinned a new greeting "Pinos de Honduras." Pine twigs appeared on Government desks. For this piney atmosphere, a tiny, cherubic Guatemalan, Juan José Orozco Posadas, was responsible...
Last week he continued to broadcast the theme to his listening neighbors. He knew that he had started something. Honduran Congress President Plutarco Muñoz had roared that "pines of Honduras really means that a revolutionary ought to be strung up on every pine in Honduras." The pine emblem had struck home...
...blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren. In its Pullmans and dim-lit coaches, most of its capacity load of passengers were asleep. The three Diesel-powered locomotives which make it the fastest of the Seaboard Air Line's New York-Miami trains had a clear stretch of track toward that day's sunny warmth in Florida...