Word: thatched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year the blazing red thatch of Norman Ryan kept cropping up in a series of holdups and bank robberies throughout Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota. In 1924 he was trapped in the Minneapolis Post Office, extradited to Canada, sentenced to life imprisonment and 30 lashes. The flogging was later canceled...
Henry Marcy is taking a shot at the 1500 meters run instead of the longer jog which has seemed to fag him out pretty completely. He has a great chance for a second spot behind the red thatch of Al Northrop unless the Indians pull something out of a bag that nobody knew anything about...
...carnauba palm is "the tree of life" to native Brazilians, who use its wood for cattle pens, its leaves to thatch huts, its fibre for baskets and fishing nets. Industrially, carnauba wax is used mainly in floor, shoe and auto polishes, has no substitute.* After the rainy season it forms on the succulent carnauba leaves, sealing up moisture for the arid months. Natives cut the leaves twice a year, dry them in the sun, beat them with clubs until the wax scales off in white, greasy flakes. Most prized is the golden wax taken from the eye of the palm...
...nondescript structure of rustic thatch pitched amid jungle creepers on the upper reaches of South America's great, turgid Amazon the authority and prestige of the League of Nations have been held higher than anywhere else on earth for exactly one year...
Dipping into the workers' quarter, the gale found an iron stove pipe that was loose in its stone collar, sticking out of a peasant's window. Angrily it ripped out the pipe, broke the window. Inside the hut, flame leaped high, licked the thatch ceiling, quickly gobbled up the whole hut. The gale pulled out the flame like taffy, spread it over the next hut and the next...