Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pushed into history's backwaters, the Portuguese have quietly tenanted one of the loveliest of lands, the long Atlantic coast, the purple-brown hills, the tall pines and the gardens of roses, carnations and bougainvillea which they tend with rare skill...
...reporters moved out over the Saxony plains to a great cluster of tall smokestacks marking the Buna plant built by I. G. Farben in 1936 to supply the Wehrmacht's synthetic rubber tires. The plant manager told them that while there had been 11,000 workers at the end of the war, there were now 9,000, producing 1,500 tons of rubber monthly, about 60% of the peak of war production...
...romance of the jungle, shown how to cut the bark of the hevea (rubber tree), and then pushed into the jungle. Disillusion came fast. The hevea did not grow in stands; sometimes the trees were miles apart. Dwellings were mostly mud huts which the men built themselves in tall forests through which the sunlight never entered. Flesh-eating piranha fish kept them from river baths. Snakes bit them. The atabrine that the U.S. sent down to combat malaria was stolen by middlemen...
...Living Church fervently seconded the minority report in an editorial titled "Not Unity but Surrender." But the hottest blast came in an article by tall, bespectacled Dr. Frederic S. Fleming, rector of Wall Street's rich old landmark, Trinity Church. Cried he: "This is the great betrayal! How much more honest it would be for those who are ready to renounce the Church ... to find their place in the Presbyterian Church without trying to 'scuttle the ship' for those who would re-mam true to their ordination vows...
Then, too, someone else said we had four traffic lights . . . two more lights than we had autos! . . . Fred Allen made a crack about the tall grass that was flourishing in front of the Regent Theater...