Word: tar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hills, leaving wounds of bright red earth. Brooks flow no more; they disappear into pipes. "Here's how they build a road in there," said a numbed South Carolinian. "First come bulldozers tearing up the ground. Then come more machines smoothing it down again. Then comes the tar; then come the rollers. It all moves at a good smart pace. Behind comes a little man walking along, painting a white line...
Bits & Bones. The captain began being an educator shortly after his father died, leaving behind some 3,000 rich Los Angeles acres, but scarcely a penny in the bank. To help support his mother, young Allan started digging up the tar pits on his land, selling the tar as fuel and roof-patching. Gradually the pits began to yield something else-the well preserved bones of ice-age animals, trapped in the tar many centuries...
...Mile was once his), his 4,000-acre farm, and the tiny Santa Maria Valley Railroad that he bought-the captain never let one of his hobbies lag. "Keep moving," he would say. "A man who gets caught behind a desk is apt to stay there." Out of his tar pits came every sort of ice-age animal to fill up Los Angeles museums, from imperial elephants and mastodons to giant sloths. Somewhere along the line, the captain also began collecting Audubons. Meanwhile, his collection of marine specimens (there is an Aganostomus hancocki Seale fish and a Diploglossus hancocki [Slevin...
...public's doghouse, and proved once again that he would be a masterful Secretary of State if all the U.S.'s enemies could be disposed of with a gavel. Yet all through 1951, Acheson's State Department was still caught as tight as Brer Rabbit in Tar Baby. The useless and impossible effort to justify its past mistakes consumed its energies. In this year-long waste of time, Senator Joe McCarthy, the poor man's Torquemada, played Tar Baby...
...first parish, at Hibbing, Minn., and a clearer notion of his life work. The Episcopal church at Hibbing, he found, paid plenty of attention "to the respectable people in the community, but they didn't think very much about the people who lived in the tar-paper shacks...