Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...River eight miles above Chattanooga, President Roosevelt this week made his first major address since he accepted the Democratic nomination for the Third Term. Hatless in the withering sun, he sat in the back seat of an open car that had been run up on a hastily-built slack pine ramp. Sweat poured down the President's face, soaked through his seersucker suit...
Through the sandy, slash-pine country of southwestern Georgia last week rolled a brand-new U. S. Army truck and trailer. At crossroads, along the main streets of dusty little towns, its five-man crew went to work. Their job was to get recruits. Atop the trailer a loudspeaker barked a persuasive sales talk. Inside there were movies of Army life, three desks for interviewing applicants. It was the first of 18 rolling recruiting stations designed by the Army for its nine Corps areas...
...that if Britain fell Canada would present a big defense problem-not only around Quebec that was the key to the North in the days of Wolfe, but northward through the sparsely inhabited, partly explored regions of the Northwest Territories, through Arctic tundra, through forests of spruce, balsam, white pine as wild as was the American frontier, along vast Canadian rivers like the Mackenzie, navigable for 1,825 miles, that flows into the Arctic Ocean. Said the Herald Tribune: "Such a treaty would be the logical and inevitable culmination of an old and precious friendship between two peoples. As neighbors...
...consisting mainly of peasant landowners, the France that curves about the Mediterranean had no other choice. Its chief products are poultry and cheese, wine and tobacco, truffles, pâté de foie gras. The silk industry has its own cocoons in southern Cévennes. There are tall pine forests along the Atlantic coast. Most of Petain's decrees last week dealt with family life and rural homesteads. One law provided that small estates (worth less than 400,000 francs) may be exempt from an old law dividing them among the heirs, in order to keep rural lands...
Socio-psychologist Shea suggested a complicated cure. Since hillbillies do not like recreations foisted on them by outside do-gooders, he would persuade community leaders to build their own recreation centres, with movies, dancing, shooting ranges, horseshoe-pitching grounds, pine sticks for whittling, brass cuspidors...