Word: sumac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First graders brought home cutout paper pumpkins," and fled from the factory for a personal survey of Dubuque County under "October's bright blue sky" . . . I found everything in this part of the Upper Mississippi Valley as advertised in your excellent paper. The sumac along the river bluffs is in excellent shape, "the greatest corn crop in history" awaits picking, down in Nine Mile Island slough the advance guard of "honkers," a small band of mallards, are settled behind some willows to feed, and out somewhere beyond Flint Hill the windows of a rural school are adorned with cutout...
...weather was wonderful almost everywhere. Skyscraper, silo and factory stack stood sharply against October's bright blue sky. Nights held the first promissory note of frost. New England's sumac was already scarlet; and below the snow-dusted rimrock of the high Rockies, aspen gleamed like brass. Lakes lay dark and still and the sound of an ax or a distant locomotive carried for miles on the tranquil...
Never in the memory of a living New Englander had there been such an Indian summer. Day after day, week after week, a warm haze hung over the states of the northeastern U.S. Maple and sumac painted the hills and shed bright, crackling drifts of leaves. Offshore, the sea was blue. Streams ran gently or dried up, and at dusk the smell of dust and wood smoke perfumed the air. No rainclouds obscured the sun or the bright autumn moon. Then, last week, nature exacted her tribute...
...Department of Agriculture, which helped develop it. A very dilute dose (one pound of the chemical to 75 gallons of water), when sprayed on the leaves, kills the toughest U.S. weed-the perennial wild morning glory (also called bindweed). It is also deadly to poison ivy, poison oak, sumac, horse nettle, chickweed, thistles, plaintain, dandelions, ragweed. But it is harmless to animals, is not inflammable, does not corrode sprayers or reduce the fertility of the soil...
...bambalacha, mohasky, mu, moocah, grass, tea or blue sage. Cigarets made from it are killers, goof-butts, joy-smokes, giggle-smokes or reefers. The word marijuana is of Mexican origin and means "the weed that intoxicates." It is made from the Indian hemp plant, a spreading green bush resembling sumac. Known to the pharmacopoeia as Cannabis sativa, it is a source of important paint ingredients and rope fiber as well as narcotics. It can be grown easily almost anywhere, hence tends to be inexpensive, as drugs go. Its recent prices (10? to 50? a cigaret) have placed it beneath...