Word: pined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welfare benefits, raising hourly pay to a range of $3.11 to $4.24. It was the second settlement in three weeks. Sixth ranking Copper Range Co., which normally extracts about 6% of the nation's annual output of copper ore from its 2,000-ft.-deep mine in White Pine, Mich., agreed in late January to an aver age wage-fringe boost of 960 an hour over the next 42 months. Last week Copper Range sharply raised the price of its copper, from a pre-strike...
...pretty young biology teacher from the French lycee (where I'm studying Vietnamese) took two of us to a Buddhist novitiates' encampment in a pine grove to meet some young monks at work on a new pagoda. The head man invited us in to his 'prayer house' for what turned into a proselytizing session. He gave me an autographed copy of an anthology of Buddhist wisdom which he had edited. I promised to read it once I knew enough Vietnamese...
...Just any old barn won't do," says Jolin, who keeps a man busy roving back-country roads through central Wisconsin. Pine and hemlock are best, he has found, because the pitch between the growth rings lets them weather more beautifully. But if the barn is less than 50 years old, the wood is usually insufficiently weathered; if it is more than 100 years old, the wood is often too brittle. "Out of 30 barns, you find only five good ones," says Jolin, who reckons wastage caused by cracking and splitting on even a fine barn...
...send? Twenty-two different personal plugs, that's what. Hallmark thought up the gimmick for a seasonal display at its Manhattan Gallery, decorating the trees according to suggestion. Jeweler Harry Winston fancied diamond sparkles, Rex Harrison (Dr. Dolittle) spoke up for animal heads, Cartoonist Charles Schulz wanted a pine branch atop Snoopy's doghouse, Julia Child recommended pots and pans on a stainless-steel tree, and Leontyne Price wanted her tree covered in opera programs. Pop Sculptor Marisol,-37, was one of the few who eschewed a personal trademark, imagining a tree lying on its side...
...pine-fringed 82-acre lot just northeast of Washington sprawls the capital's third largest, most tightly guarded building. Though smaller only than the Pentagon and the State Department, the modernistic nine-story headquarters of the U.S.'s biggest intelligence organ, the National Security Agency, is also official Washington's least-known edifice...