Word: saps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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French Communists felt the dialectical sap rising in their veins. They rioted. A try at wrecking the conservative newspaper Le Figaro brought out their old opponents, the cops. One camera caught cop and Commie in a balletlike tableau (see cut) which suggested a title-The Afternoon of a Gendarme. French ports were tense as Communists still tried to whip up the dockers to strike ships bearing U.S. aid to France. On the whole, however, Frenchmen last week were as lighthearted as men may be who live with no more in the backs of their minds than an unstable government...
...almost here, but the weather was sullen about it. Things warmed up a bit in the South, and at week's end the temperature got above freezing as far north as Boston. But New England's snow-buried sugar maples were not yet giving up their sap, and citizens of the Midwest were still recovering from blizzards and roaring winds...
...might suggest that the unusual behavior of the blue tits in England [TIME, Jan. 23] was occasioned by their eating fermented berries. It is not an unusual occurrence for birds to become somewhat inebriated as a result of partaking of fermented sap or berries. The yellow-bellied sapsucker of our country is known for its queer behavior in this respect...
...father was a traveling salesman; his mother died when he was only four. Brought up by stepparents on a Maine farm near Newport, he gathered maple sap, milked cows. Milking was valuable training for a handshaking politician, Douglas says: "The hand movement is about the same...