Word: ponds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...floor of a ruined brick house. Sweeping north across the amber wheat, the deadly funnel killed one family's five children in Oxford, Kans. A farmer three miles south of Udall saw it coming: "It sounded like a bunch of jets and looked black as an oil slush pond. I didn't look long. I lit out for the cellar...
...taken for what it was-decoration-the effect was often charming. Such expert practitioners as Theodores Stamos, James Brooks and the late Bradley Walker Tomlin manage to enfold the observer in a dreamlike flux of colors that goes on and on, like a boat ride around a small pond...
...genuine German Schloss, complete with park and pond, now owned by the proud potato-peel tycoons of Thedestrasse...
...love, Kim knocks around the Baltic as an apprentice on a three-masted schooner, fighting for peace within, while World War II rages around him. Soon this unschooled lad, who can write so tenderly to his sweetheart ("May you sleep as sweetly as a water lily on a pond"), is looking into the hearts of others-the cough-racked Finnish soldier riding a blacked-out bus near the front, the old Danish widow clinging to life by keeping a dried-up Christmas tree by her bedside. Kim joins the Danish underground in the war's last year, is caught...
...Sentinel's 1955 show, after a week of watching him work their pond, the authorities finally decided that Jerry was a public nuisance, and refused to sell him another ticket. Jerry's father, who had been serving the boy's catch at his New Colony Inn in Milwaukee, promptly got a court order restraining the show from barring his son. But the sport show managers still refused to let Jerry cast another fly. Before Jerry was banned, he had already caught more than 100 trout. Prizes: a five-day Las Vegas vacation, plus three one-week vacations...