Word: pondful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Covering the Waterfront. In Springfield, Mass., a woman rushed up to Edward P. Hannigan, a tourist-booth attendant, breathlessly asked for directions to all the swimming places within a ten-mile radius, explaining that she had left her children at a pond and couldn't remember which...
...Time," wrote contemplative Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), "is but the stream I go a-fishing in." Recluse Thoreau (Walden, 1854), who lived for 26 months in a spare, do-it-yourself hut (cost: $28.12) in the serene wilderness of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, might have locked his creaky door had he caught a glimpse of the U.S. last week. It was a remarkable sight. In the heat of this midsummer, the nation looked upon time not as a quiet stream but as a bubbling spring from which it might satisfy an endless thirst for motion...
...makes you think. He makes it interesting because you get interested in yourself. It's like a kid learning to swim. First a few strokes, then courage. Then he realizes he has the ability to stay above water. First thing you know, he's going across the pond. Birdie makes you like baseball; he's a real good teacher...
...year on Patriot's Day, April 19, the swan boats migrate out of winter storage in a warehouse down to the Boston Public Gardens opposite the Common. At this time, and during the rest of the summer, the city's harried mothers bring their offspring over to the garden pond for a ride, a look at the ducks and swans, and a chance to throw peanuts at the pigeons...
...pond ducks was splashing near an empty boat. "Want to see something interesting?" (He stepped over the seats and pointed to a small wooden box in the rear) "See that--eleven duck eggs! That's the mother over there--they're mallards. We put some excelsior in this box after she laid the first egg and now she's laid ten more. They take thirty days to hatch and if you come back here then you can see duck chicks right on the boat...