Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squirrels doggedly went on gathering nuts. Oak trees continued to shed their leaves, though with an embarrassed air as if committing some social indiscretion. But other flora and fauna rebelliously refused to believe that it was really autumn. Shad (rarely seen after August) swam back up New Jersey streams, querulously tried to spawn. The giddier of Washington's famed cherry trees blossomed. Dogs panted in upstate New York, which had been blanketed by snow four weeks before. Flies came dazedly back to life, mosquitoes whined, roses and lilacs budded. An ostrich in the Cleveland zoo squatted with springtime ceremony...
Flickering light was shed on the problem of the meat shortage's effect on American students last night with the arrival of a dispatch from Yale, a university in New Haven, Conn...
Russian diplomats have abandoned their air of cool, almost hostile, detachment. They have shed the mantle of impeccable, uncompromising, righteousness, and have tried to cultivate the "common touch." Andrei Gromyko's boyish face was photographed at baseball games and heavyweight prize fights. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov unpacked his broadest, heart-warming smile for the trip to New York aboard the Queen Elizabeth and accepted an opportunity to garner favorable publicity in the best American campaign tradition by taking a brief turn at the helm of the giant liner. At the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, Molotov...
...time," that the United States is interested in China not as a smoothly-running machine but as a two-party, democratic republic. If the Nanking government, as it stands, contains the answer to Chinese difficulties, Washington might have taken advantage of the Moscow-Chungking agreement of 1945 to shed the Communist element entirely. As it stands, this country is on the fence in China, and while it might be worthwhile to encourage Chiang Kai-shek in his attempt to rehabilitate the country, Americans, and their government, seem to be more interested in encouraging Chiang to reach an agreement with...
...London the Daily Express, long rationed to four pages, shed a crocodile tear for the plight of New York's dailies, headlined its paragraph on the shortage: WE KNOW, FELLERS...