Word: pining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partially crippled Hatoyama hobbled painfully up to a white pine altar at the entrance to the shrine, closed his eyes, bowed his head and paid silent attention to the sun goddess-and, in doing so, paid heed also to the votes of Japanese nationalists in the forthcoming general elections...
...aside for farms last year for the first time. In the South tree farms cover 21 million acres from North Carolina to Texas. Florida has one gigantic farm of 800,000 acres owned by St. Joe Paper Co., and Texas has 3,400,000 acres producing fast-growing Southern pines for U.S. construction and pulp mills. But the biggest operations are in the Pacific Northwest, where the idea first took root. There the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Potlatch Forests, J. Neils Lumber, Crown Zellerbach, Long-Bell Rayonier, and other large companies have nearly 8,000,000 acres of tall Douglas...
...meadow. Each train traveling two of the main routes across Paris was equipped with an atomizer through which gushed a jet of perfume. On the Vincennes-Neuilly line, the fragrance was Eau de Cologne; on the Orleans-Clignancourt line, a workmen's route, it was Essence of Pine. "My," said one happy office worker arriving at his desk, "the Metro smelled deliciously today." But after a careful sniff or two, most subway riders admitted that the Metro still smelled remarkably like Old Metro...
...challenge that compensates for the long, cold hours, the waiting, the superior smile of more lethal sportsmen. There's nothing quite like the glow of inner pride when a devoted birder spots a rarity. One who glowed this season was Ben Coffey Jr. of Memphis, who saw seven pine siskins (common enough in the North, but rare in the mid-South and beyond) on his Mississippi count around a crossroads hamlet named Kara Avis...
...borrowed $3,000 to open a Shell Oil distributorship when he was 21, now owns businesses grossing $20 million annually, including an export-import company, real-estate holdings in Jackson, Miss. (including a ten-story office building), Milner Products Co., one of the world's biggest makers of pine oil deodorants. With four auto agencies, he is the South's biggest Chevrolet dealer. Milner's income: about $1,000,000 annually, of which he keeps half, since much of it is in capital gains...