Word: shade
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...heavy-foot driving, the careless speed that sent his cars tumbling off the track as often as they finished. Now he knew better. He had learned that every stretch of road, every curve has its optimum speed, that a fraction too little would surely lose, that a shade too much might mean disaster...
...dead elm tree removed from the yard a short time ago was Harvard's latest concession to a disease which threatens to deracinate all of New England's staeliest shade trees. Since its discovery in Massachusetts in 1941, Dutch Elm Disease has killed a recorded 50,000 of the state's American elms, and probably as many more died unnoticed or unrecorded...
...Buildings and Grounds Department is waging a losing fight to save the University's elms. Although many other varieties shade University property, several areas, particularly as the Yard, are populated mostly with the susceptible species. Rather than replant new elms, which live two or three hundred years, the department is filling gaps with faster-growing maples, pines, and pin oaks. These are respectable shade trees; but they are not elms, which is rather...
...Leaf. In Madison, Wis., the State Bureau of Personnel offers a $325-a-month summer job: "Shade Tree Inspector...
Critics have tried to proselytize Orwell's shade, I think, because there is not much else they can do with him. His work does not lend itself to criticism. His prose style is better read than read about; there are few meanings in his novels beyond what he consciously put there; and aware of his limitations, he seldom ventured beyond them...