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Word: sorrell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulars stepped off the bus wearing oiled boots, scruffy knapsacks, faded blue jeans. Bright-eyed, they talked of things and places far removed from everyday city life: of lady fern and sorrel, of landmarks with such strange-sounding names as Evolution Valley and Tuolumne Meadows, of high places where the air is pungent with eucalyptus. Their packs held only a few necessities: a knife to carve a walking stick, binoculars clinking against a canteen cup, sandwiches. By contrast, the newcomers in the party wore madras shorts, sneakers, and apprehensive faces. They carried pocketbooks, transistor radios, straw baskets with food enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outdoors: Call of the Wild | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

...swim them to their island and sell the foals. Paul Beebe (David Ladd). a spratling who lives on Chincoteague with his sister Maureen (Pam Smith) and a couple of story book grandparents (Arthur O'Connell and Anne Seymour), is desperate to own one of the wild ponies, a sorrel mare named, as horses in all properly run children's movies should be, The Phantom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: If Wishes Were Ponies | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

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