Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer, after two months of pounding, sawing, and scraping, the house began to assume an air of respectability. One of the big jobs was wrecking an old shed which nearly filled the space between the house and the one next door--formerly the barn of the Murphy house...
...Ditch & Roadway. Next day, he took the hard way around Augusta's wide fairways that are lined with lofty pines and handsome flowers. On the 15th hole, when his ball went in a ditch, Harmon shed shoes & socks and went into the water to play it. At the 17th (similar to the famous 14th at Scotland's St. Andrews), his drive hit a tree and caromed off into a roadway. But Claude recovered, made one over par on the hole. He got another 70. The early pacemaker, Lloyd Mangrum, had run afoul of Augusta's notorious greens...
...German general plans a "raid" he tips off the priest, who in turn warns the partisans. The eleven members of the "23rd Corps" scatter to the woods until the "raid" is canceled and then return to" their village. The formalities of war are observed, but no blood is shed...
...mind an incident that illustrates 'the Pope's" [George A. Walton] Friendly understanding and treatment of his students. Returning from Quaker Meeting in nearby Newtown one Sunday morning, my roommate and I could not resist the temptation to throw stones through the windows of a coal shed. . . . The irate owner pursued us up the racks but, being in training for soccer at the ime, we soon outdistanced...
Upon arriving at our room, we changed our clothes, put out different coats on the Deds, and buried our noses in dog-eared copies of Julius Caesar. Soon we heard knocking at the doors along the hall, and presently "the Pope" opened our door and said to the shed owner with him: "Are these the boys?" The man looked us over, looked at the coats on the beds, and said "No." But "George A." wasn't fooled. He stood coking at us for a moment with just the trace of a smile at the corners of his mouth...