Word: tans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marauding Bears. Liberty Hyde Bailey, born during the Buchanan administration, was raised in the Michigan wilderness, on a farm his father hacked out of the forest. His family fought off marauding bears, learned to weave their own cloth, make their own soap and candles, tan their own leather, grow or hunt their own food. The elder Bailey was a Puritan, who liked being 52 miles from a postoffice (mail once a week, he thought, was quite enough), and had to approve every book young Lib read, except Pilgrim's Progress and the Bible. Once Lib brought home The Origin...
Then he went to inspect a submarine, turned up later at the enlisted men's beach for his daily dip and a two-hour sunning. The red of his nose was peeling and turning to tan. He lolled in the sand in a T-shirt and white duck trousers, a canvas helmet shading his face. He looked like a man without a care in the world...
...front of the Guests' fireplace at a minute after midnight on St. Valentine's Day. She had picked the dress to have "something old"-she had bought it a week before. Her stockings were "something new," her handkerchief "borrowed" and her orchid "blue." Rockefeller wore a tan gabardine suit. His voice sank as he made the responses. Bobo answered clearly; the Presbyterian minister omitted the word "obey...
...year-old ex-convict, is one of three missing gunmen, the only participants in the January 9 robbery not yet rounded up, police disclosed. Apparently suspicious at the sight of patrol cars cruising in his area, the suspect dashed to his garage and escaped the police net in a tan automobile bearing Florida plates...
...Douglas' spirits are up. Though his Arizona tan is gone and he is beginning to look a little drawn, his sinus trouble has not bothered him in London's unusually dry, bright weather. His stomach (he once had "most of the insides cut out" as a result of the Argonne gassing) is well enough so that he can sneak an occasional forbidden Martini or cigarette...