Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gradually, steadily, doggedly, the snorting cats-drove the forest back. Woodsmen logged the spruce, pine and aspen for corduroy roads over the bogs. "Mister, I thought we'd never get through those first 15 miles. We'd get so damn tired we could hardly drag home, but every afternoon when we got to the store at Charlie's Lake, the lady there'd have a cake for us. Boy, those cakes were good...
...Lowell L-23 KIR 3191 Garesche, E. L., Kirkland L-11 KIR 5496 Garn, S. M. '43, Lowell L-35 ELI 2192 Garner, F. L. '45, Lowell B-11-12 KIR 7710 Garrett, E. A., III, '46, Leverett J-25 KIR 2654 Garrison, A. '46, 181 Pine Ridge Rd., Waban LAS 3744 Gentry, W. M. '44, Adams A-16 KIR 5783 Gerstley, L. III '45, Dunster H-34 KIR 7385 Ginsburg, E. '43, Eliot G-11 KIR 2863 Glendening, L. '46, Adams C-21 ELI 2978 Goldston, E. '42, 15 Everett St. TRO 3824 Golub, B. '46, Kirkland...
...last week the hero had half emerged from scattered tons of sequoia chips. With Blue-Ox Babe slung lightly on his shoulders, he looked as if he could indeed pick his teeth with a pine log. Sculptor Barnes says: "I'd like to do Kit Carson too, and Buffalo Bill...
...little encouragement, a little help. Englebright's home-town paper, the Nevada City (pop. 2,445) Nugget, gave him editorial support. The truck drivers and yard men at his Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co. offered to spend their evenings in his office pecking out campaign letters. They did not worry about the fact that they might be hurting their own pocketbooks: last year half of the company's $400,000 gross (and Henderson's $27,000 profits) came from Government orders. He would lose as a Congressman...
Headquarters for the development of U.S. camouflage is a group of neat, air-conditioned buildings in a pine forest at Fort Belvoir, Va. There experts train camouflage officers who are attached to practically every unit in the U.S. armed forces. Fort Belvoir picks its prospective camoufleurs from officer personnel, rates horse sense and a high I.Q. higher than previous training in art or even engineering. Continually besieged by well-meaning civilians who think they can contribute invaluable ideas or specialized backgrounds to army camouflage work, Fort Belvoir's officers have developed a healthy skepticism, finding that most people have...