Word: poplars
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...star boarder at Washington's famed Walter Reed Hospital, a tall, spare, silvered man with a back straight as a poplar, wrote to the President...
Trip 21 gave a lurch. Behind her in the rain swirled the twigs of a tall poplar. The cabin lights went out. She hurtled through spiked pines, bursting her guts horribly, flumped to the ground. There she roared at death and lay still. Then from her twisted frame, from the red Georgia earth where they had been thrown, her survivors began to shout, first to each other, then for help...
...significant report was made by the mayor of Poplar. This Blitzed London borough had 23,000 buildings at break of war. Thus far 14,000 of them have been damaged, but 10,000 battered houses have again been made habitable. Two thousand have been officially condemned as unlivable and another two thousand already have been cleared away by the demolition squads...
...that shook Adolf (Providence-Is-With-Me) Hitler's latest victim, Rumania, last weekend was not a seven or eight but an Intensity Nine lateral quake that caused the ground to shift back & forth like corn in a popper. "It was like being on top of a poplar tree ... in a high wind," cabled a reporter...
Billy Hull moonshined for awhile. Then, when he had his first $1,000, he bought a stand of fine poplars, logged them himself, snaked them down to the Obey River with a pair of steers. He became a timberman. From 1870 to 1900 millions of walnut and poplar logs went to the Nashville mills. Billy Hull, with his red tool box and little round cap without a bill, stayed with the lumber-rafting business long after Son Cord was a prominent politician...