Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greenest rookie I ever saw was the Georgia pine boy who was told to stand at the end of the line and came back to announce that he couldn't do it because someone was already there...
...Army sprawled on the dusty Italian earth. An artillery observer lay prone beside him at the forward observation post. The valley ahead rolled gently like background for a Raphael canvas, touched with hedge-rimmed farms and tiny rivulets under a deep blue sky. Far off, snug against a spiny, pine-covered ridge, rose the white and red buildings of a village on the hard road from Salerno to Naples. There the Germans were stubbornly but thinly entrenched. Allied shells whipped across the classic landscape, scuffed up geysers of smoke...
Into Mackinac Island's white pine, white-painted Grand Hotel waddled fat little Harrison Spangler, all set to rig up the Republican Party for its biggest blunder in a decade. As G.O.P. National Chairman, he had arranged matters with the exact and elaborate ritual of a Jap nobleman about to commit harakiri...
Shortly, the Carnation Co. was grossing $8,000 monthly on desks and office tables. Later, Austin designed a wooden filing cabinet whose drawers actually slide smoothly. His simple secret: when resinous pine is rubbed against a hard wood, both become slippery and glass-smooth, slide more easily the more they are rubbed. Orders for 1,700 poured in, have kept the Carnation Co. hustling as it supplied a good chunk of the requirements of the Army and Boeing Aircraft in Seattle...
...girl you might see crossing any Eastern campus because that is exactly what she is. Daughter of an Omaha lawyer, isolated in her early teens first by her parents' divorce and then her father's tragic death, she was educated in an Indianapolis convent school and at Pine Manor Junior College at Wellesley, Mass...