Word: poplar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe of Gide or Aneurin Bevan, but a continent whose inhabitants behave as if Strauss operettas and books by Bemelmans were their sole guides to everyday life. In Bemelmans' Europe, all is eternally prewar, in mood if not in time: the Rolls-Royces glide forever down the poplar-lined avenues to the magic chateaux of mysterious princesses: the penniless dukes and counts sponge delicately on the newly rich; back of every exquisite dinner stands a temperamental chef with handlebar mustaches. It has been Bemelmans' art to convince his U.S. public not only that such a dream world exists...
...hold a pre-World War I car, its brass shined to a dazzle, its head lamps staring proudly ahead, its exhaust pipes exposed for all admiring eyes to see. There are even some, as delicately geared as Author Purdy, who can close their eyes and "imagine a string-straight, poplar-lined Route Nationale in France on a summer's day. That growing dot in the middle dis tance is a sky-blue Bugatti coupe, rasping down from Paris to Nice at no miles an hour...
Heal Thyself. In Poplar Bluff, Mo., while rushing to fight a fire, Fireman Bimel Wheelis detected smoke fumes nearer home, discovered his own hat was ablaze...
...Communists were getting starved for new victories, too. North of Taegu, a Red army corps of three divisions tried for four nights on end to barrel their armor down a poplar-lined stretch of road held by Colonel John ("Mike") MichaehV crack 2;th Regiment (see below). After six days & nights in this sector, the mauled Communist divisions pulled back out of U.S. artillery range...
...sixth day, General Kim's forces stumbled northward to regroup. Mike Michaelis stretched out on the ground under a poplar tree outside his command post. He yawned. "Kim's mission was to knock me off this road and take Taegu," said Mike. "He failed. He's going to try another way, but we beat him here...