Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sights in America: the lights of Los Angeles, stretching as far as the eye could reach. Fletcher Bowron's eyes gave the familiar scene an instant's glance. Inside his old Spanish-style house, his eyes moistened as he opened a red leather book and read a sheaf of letters in his praise. He had had an unusual day. It was his tenth anniversary as mayor. Civic leaders had honored him at a big luncheon...
...people any longer felt that such boyish fervor would quite do as good "war poetry." So, between wars, Brooke and his little sheaf of verses remained objects of piety rather than admiration...
...Norseman plane landed last week in the Albany River where it empties into bleak James Bay. A man carrying a sheaf of papers went ashore with the pilot and walked toward a line of unpainted shacks and squalid tents on-the river bank. Huskies, chained to stakes around every dwelling, set up a howl. Ragged Indian children left their baseball game on the muskeg to crowd around the strangers...
...office at the usual 8:20 a.m., the President was given a fat manila folder full of birthday greetings from around the world, with a hefty sheaf from Kansas City and Missouri. On his desk was a white-iced angel-food cake. Among his birthday presents: 64 red roses, a new gold World War I service button, a fancy rifle, a miniature bronze horse from a nine-year-old in Douglas, Wyo. who shares his birthday...
...illustrate what he means, Gugel waves a sheaf of his drawings of the Cinderella story: a Fairy Godmother in the form of a tablecloth with eyes and feathers, dangling a spider; a cast-iron Cinderella flagging down an old-fashioned locomotive (see cut) with clocks for wheels, representing her father...