Word: shrub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tiny green feathers delicately blurred the heavy black-purple branches of the Japanese fernleaf beech trees near the Executive Office. Tight green buds popped all over what Calvin Coolidge used to call "the south lot." One forsythia shrub, near the office, already sprayed yellow...
...early as June the British evacuated all women, children and foreigners from all areas within 20 miles of the coast shown on the map. Bridges were blown up, low areas flooded, and men with guns-both soldiers and parashots-were to be seen behind every shrub. Gun emplacements and trenches were constructed throughout this area, which became virtually an armed camp...
Investigation by the committee, for which Zimmerman has been working, revealed that many fires were started by people who wanted a job putting them out. Others started fires to burn away shrub and secure good pasture land, and still others fired their neighbor's land because of personal grudges...