Word: pining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measure of the artists' accuracy appears in University Hall's ivy which follows the pattern of the living vine. At the rear of the Hall, the Yard's lone pine tree stands among the familiar elms, oaks and maples. Both the positions and the species of the model's 2,500 trees were mapped by student workers...
...Cowpeas & Sweet Potatoes. Walter George, the only son of Robert Theodric and Sarah Stapleton George, was born in a sun-blistered pine house in Webster County, where his father scratched the hard clay to bring forth thin crops of cotton, cowpeas and sweet potatoes. Young George's reading material was his grandfather's collection of the Congressional Record. Recalls George: "The congressional style was ponderous in those days, but I learned to like it." One day George rode into nearby Preston on the back of an elderly mule. The village belle saw the youth, laughed...
...that could hold him. Shortly afterwards he found himself tied fast, squeezed into a box measuring 40 inches square. He was lowered by crane into a fast-rushing river. But suddenly the shaft-pin broke and the box fell into the water. When Blackstone smashed thought the pine wood bottom and came to the surface, he was dangerously close to some falls. He was but feet from the edge when he freed himself from his ropes and grabbed a cable stretched across the river to keep boats from going over the falls...
Calvin Richmond, 13, had been badly crushed when he fell under a truck near Pine Bluff, Ark. In the membranes separating the chambers of his heart were three holes which allowed the blood to flow inefficiently back and forth. The University of Minnesota's team of heart repairmen, headed by Dr. Clarence Walton Lillehei, needed a "dry field" (the heart drained of blood) if they were to operate successfully. A Toronto-born colleague, Dr. Gilbert Campbell, 31, offered them the dog's lung to attain this. (He had already used lungs in 100 experimental operations with animals...
Last week Monte W. Durham, 26, a stocky figure in a wide-striped blue suit, stood in Washington's District Court and heard Judge David Pine sentence him to a prison term of one to four years for housebreaking and robbery. The Durham case, already famous among psychiatrists and lawyers, is a direct challenge to the M'Naghten rule...