Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From lands of palm and pine, from a people whose boast it had once been that the sun never set on it, rose a deeper prayer than Kipling's "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet." The prayer of tight-lipped men & women throughout Britain's empire was to keep the sun from setting...
Where the Sabine River divides Louisiana from Texas, 68,000 Regulars of the U. S. Army maneuvered last week. Their war game, unrolled under a hot sun, on russet roads of sand and clay, in air sweet with the odor of pine trees, was the biggest the U. S. Army had ever...
...Army got a good look at Louisiana: moss, bats, and dark, stagnant pools in forests of oak and pine; Negroes, staring wall-eyed from weather-grey shacks; from shacks no better, poor whites whose grand pappies saw the Confederates run the Yanks off this same land; a new oil find, 30 miles south of prosperous Alexandria; cotton, corn, potatoes, rice where cane grew until Louisiana sugar prices went to pot. Yellow signs reading: TROOPS, KEEP OUT hung on fence posts and trees. These signs marked farms whose owners had refused the Army permission to cross their land. One officer, seeking...
...Elayne Frank, New York University James L. Gamble, Jr. Penelope Ladd, Radcliffe Benjamin O. Gardiner Alice Hunsaker, Boston Samuel L. Gittler Bette Lipkin, Vassar Eliot R. Godin Petta Dine, Sargent College Frederick C. Goetz Marian Lippincott, Bradford Morton N. Gondelman Dodie Bloom, Brookline Richard Le B. Goodwin Bess Ogden, Pine Manor Morris Gray Martha Turner, Cambridge David N. Harris Ann Jo Woodward, Winchester Richard Harte, Jr. Jackie de Sieges, Vassar Fredrick B. Harvey, Jr. Pussy Cassidy, Easton, Md. William H. Haskell Virginia Grant, Weston Abram W. Hatcher Margaret Gaft, Cambridge Robert A. Hawkins Virginia Garland, Mt. Ida Peter J. Hearst...
...Harlan, Ky., because St. Mark says "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them ..." members of the Little Pine Mountain Church of God were vexed when Kentucky's Legislature recently passed a law imposing a $50-$100 fine on those who (after June 12) "display, handle or use a snake or reptile in a religious service." Pastor George Washington Hensley last week told how his church, by testing faith by poison, had already got around the Legislature: "Brother Bradley Shell took a large dose of strychnine powders about...