Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wall Street." The man who seduced the Erie was an ex-cattle drover named Daniel Drew, a director from 1853 to 1868. "Uncle Dan'l" made millions juggling Erie stock* on Wall Street, but never gave the common stockholders a nickel, giving rise to the saying: "Icicles will sprout in hell before Erie common pays a dividend...
...featured in the Communist Stockholm petition, has been painted bright red. Under it are the words: "La colombe qui fait bourn!" (The dove that goes boom!). From the red bird's mouth dangles the olive branch, but its feet are the treads of a tank and its wings sprout guns...
From your fingers caresses sprout...
...built ripply dunes along the east-west highways. In parts of Oklahoma the swirling dust cut visibility to half a mile. Winds in northern Texas sawed the sandy earth out from between dead cotton stocks, scooped fine topsoil from dry fields where winter wheat had failed to sprout because of long draught. Even in Dallas, 300 miles away, darkness came an hour early and sand sifted under windows and doors. Those who remembered the gritty, black devastating dust storms of the "Dirty Thirties" looked long and carefully...
...nearly two years listeners and advertisers stayed away in droves. Then, almost overnight, the flood ran the other way. Chesterfield sponsored his daytime show and it began to sprout additional sponsored quarter-hours. Thomas J. Lipton Inc., searching for a new nighttime program, decided to take a chance on Talent Scouts. Godfrey...