Word: shrub
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...Washington, President Roosevelt could see spring right outside his office. Near his window a white jasmine shrub was beginning to blossom; pansies popped their bright faces around the brooding State Department rookery. The cherry trees budded around the Tidal Basin-except for the four sawed down in December by overzealous patriots. At noon and night, Washington's parks, where the iris grew almost fast enough to be watched, were filled with lonesome boys & girls from small towns, who wondered how the spring looked back home...
Guayule rubber is not new; Intercontinental Rubber Co. has been producing and selling it for 35 years. A U.S. corporation, Intercontinental gets all of its guayule rubber from Mexico, where the shrub grows wild in high, semi-arid regions. Mexican peons yank the plants from the ground, tie them on the backs of plodding burros, send them off to one of Intercontinental's three Mexican factories. There the rubber is extracted by running the plants through grinding and pebble mills. The final product (which is shipped to the U.S. in 100-lb. boxes) looks, feels and smells like tree...
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...