Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fossil remains of the world's oldest land plant, a primitive shoot of the Cambrian era, 500,000,000 years age, have been found by a local paleobotanist in black oil shale from Sweden...
...home!"-still maintains the lightest touch in the business. As usual, the Rodgers melodies are fresh as a May wind, artful and surprising as the flight of a barn swallow. George Balanchine's ballets, particularly a long dream dance, continue to set marks for more serious masters to shoot...
Last week, however, Warden Eckert gave the nation's birdfolk fresh alarm by proposing to step up his campaign, declaring: "My hunters will get new orders to shoot every golden eagle they see, destroy all the nests and young they can find. If necessary, new hunters will be sent out." Four days later Warden Eckert's term expired and Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark replaced him with a deserving Democrat who, having had no experience with wild life, was expected to let eagles prey in peace...
...that a hint of cheaper gold prices might be useful in negotiating trade and money pacts with Britain, the Empire being by all odds the world's biggest gold producer.* Even if the Administration did not loose the gold rumor as a trial balloon, it certainly did not shoot it down on sight...
When the opposing five were struggling about his basket, he stood apart, hands on hips, head high, and contemplated the situation. There was a smirk on his face, made grotesque by the mask, as if he believed the other team could not by any means shoot a basket, which made it necessary for him to waste his strength. So he stood there, doing nothing, shuffling from one foot to the other, while the enemies he scorned made a basket...