Word: pining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coke carton and coughed. "So I got sent to a hospital over there. Nearly got the flu. Most of us did. They had me in a bed by a window. I could see them building pine boxes outside. Rows of boxes waiting for us." He smiles. "I used to wonder whether the carpenter was building mine while I watched...
...When the pine-trees crack like little guns in the silence of the wood, And the icicles hang down like tusks under the parka hood...
...Payne 6f Maine," parodied Pine Tree State Democrats on the eve of last week's early-bird election, "is mainly on the wane." But not even Democrats, as the results rolled in, were prepared for the size of their gain. Not only did Frederick G. Payne lose, as expected, to lanky (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) bow-tied Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 44, the golden boy of Maine politics; Muskie, as the state's first popularly elected Democratic Senator, got double the plurality that he expected. And a train of Maine Democrats followed Muskie into power. Items...
...ornate complex of glass and aluminum buildings stood all but deserted in the pine-covered heights of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, like a giant motel that was somehow mistakenly plopped down in a forest. Here and there a lonely figure in khakis scurried across the shimmering terrazzo courtyards and disappeared into a wall of glass. Then suddenly, into the woodland slumber burst the sound of a brass band and the clack-clack of boot-steps-and up the ramp into the spacious grounds marched 450 men, battlegarbed in steel helmets and full field packs. Their young faces were almost...
...Pepper," wrote Baggs, "has watered his philosophy . . . and we would not know what we were recommending to our readers if we recommended him." But Spessard Holland, who snipes at Pepper as an unregenerate pro-Red, "has been guilty of pine and palmetto McCarthy-ism." The News's summation: a gingerly approval of Holland-only because his seniority might help Florida's agriculture and timber industries...