Word: prune
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...still crackled in the deep combustible duff of the forest floor. In the Sequoia and other blackened forests, the Forest Service was making brisk plans to replant. Said Fire Boss Geil, his face drawn and his eyes hooded with fatigue: "We'll plant seedlings, and we'll prune them, and in 70 or 80 years we'll have the timber back. It'll take a lot of work. Tomorrow we start...
...Engine failure. Prune-To beat another...
...Alternatives. In 1953, when he was working overtime to prune the budget, Banker Dodge found that the taxpayer's investment in the Tennessee Valley Authority was increasing at the rate of $276 million a year, would reach nearly $2 billion in 1954. Nevertheless, TVA was hard pressed to meet the priority needs of two atomic energy plants and keep pace with the mid-South population and industrial growth. Instead of ignoring TVA's needs (as had been done in the 1953 budget), Dodge decided that he could either 1) request $100 million in the 1955 budget...
...many of these subscribers have long since dissolved their ties with the University. Their affiliation with the "Harvard family" is tenuous when compared to that of any student. To make the B.S.O. Sanders tradition meaningful, therefore, the Administration should prune from the subscribers list, people who are no longer attached to the University. It should then allot the extra seats, not to the most "eligible" persons applying for season's subscriptions, but on a "rush" basis to the first students who show up before each concert. In this way, Harvard music-lovers would have at least some chance of sharing...
Never a star athlete, Case showed his prowess in offbeat competitions. He won a prune-eating contest at a Y.M.C.A. summer camp. And on his library mantel is a cup given him for winning a heel-and-toe walking race at a fair near Poughkeepsie in 1921. He had entered the contest because he considered it a "real challenge": the only other man in the race was a postman. At Rutgers (where he was Phi Beta Kappa), he was an attack man on the varsity lacrosse team, and he has a broken nose to show...