Word: pined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could cut a man open with a deft touch, lay his vital organs on his chest and put them all back inside again . . . He straightened noses painlessly with a pine broomstick and a hammer. In all things that counted in medicine, he was up to date...
...British-made acid bomb hidden in a briefcase exploded on July 20, 1944 in Adolf Hitler's headquarters, "Wolfschanze," deep in an East Prussian pine forest. Four men were killed, but Hitler staggered out slightly burned and bruised, though his hearing was affected. Within a few hours, an implacable hunt for the conspirators was unleashed. Before it was over, thousands of Germany's anti-Nazis were exterminated...
...story has it that the people of Bessans began whittling devils in the 14th Century to commemorate a home-town boy named Duvallon, who sold his soul to Satan on a Christmas night. For 50 years thereafter, Duvallon was able to tote huge pine trees about on his shoulders and to float up & down the River Arc in a magic, unsinkable jacket. Satan at last came to collect, of course, suffused with devilish glee. Duvallon slipped his wife's wedding ring on his own finger for protection, jumped on his horse and galloped off to Rome. The Pope prescribed...
...Bunnies made an uphill fight in their 'A' contest to cop the double win. Behind 24 to 16 at the half, they finally edged the Deacons with the help of Ned Maroni and Bucky O'Connor who dropped in pine points apiece. The final score was 48 to 43. In the second tilt, Leverett...
...superintendent saw it, was daughter Gate's romance with the young insurance salesman who had come down from Indianapolis to spend the holidays with the Conboy family. Wife Lib made popcorn balls, daughter Cate decked out the dining room with red-and-green streamers and piled pine cones and cedar boughs in the middle of the table. "Your beau's going to think you've emptied the woodbox on the table," Lib objected. Cate knew better. It would "look like Christmas to Christie, like winter and the woods" and their being alone together...