Word: pining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a whirlwind of paperwork, Ike flew with Mamie to Augusta at week's end, where-between alternate engagements at the links and in his office-he munched (in the Kelly green coat of the exclusive Augusta National Golf Club) crackers from the "Eisenhower Cracker Barrel," a pine-wooded whimsical memento contributed by Treasury ex-Secretary George Humphrey. Rising to the folksiness of the occasion, Ike said between munches, "There'll be no trouble from here on out for the world...
...Pinetree system along both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border would be brought into action, pinpointing the targets in the sky with their radar, and directing their destruction by antiaircraft fire, guided missiles or interceptor planes, now in the process of being armed with nuclear-warhead rockets. Behind the Pine-tree posts, watching for breakthroughs or for flank attacks from the sea, are a host of additional AC&W units, including lines of offshore picket ships, Air Force RC-121 Super Constellations, Navy ZPG-2W blimps and, in the Atlantic off Cape Cod, a Texas Tower (two others are under...
...become liberated in the U.S., now sells out his shows at $3,500 tops. Dynasty harkens back to Okada's past, recalling to him "the oldtime Japan," though the shapes are his own invention. Says he: "I find myself in nature and nature in myself. There are old pine trees in the picture (center). The blue and brown areas (upper left) are like a rainbow, a cloud, rain or fog-any symbol you pick-but with a feeling of sky, air and space." ¶ Red and Black, by Clyfford Still. This is the Albright's prime acquisition...
Descartes believed the pineal gland was the seat of the soul, and doctors later thought it was man's third or inner eye. The pineal (from the Latin word for pine cone, which it resembles in shape) is a small gland attached to the midbrain...
Last week Air Force Colonel Dixon J. Arnold, commander of the 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, issued a flat order: plant the pine trees. Two thousand miles from New Zealand, by the next Douglas Globemaster, came 25 pine trees, four to six feet tall. Yielding gracefully, Navy ground crews planted 24 of them the way the Air Force wanted-even though there had never before been a pine tree in all Antarctica. To add insult to this interservice triumph, the airmen posted a sign showing Smokey the Bear pointing at the snow and a 25th tree. Beneath him was the legend...