Word: timbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chaim Weizmann of Motol. Russia, son of Osher the timber merchant and Rachel, stood before the Knesset in Jerusalem, taking the oath of office as Israel's first President in 2,000 years. In pain, his eyes seeing dimly through cataracts, he stumbled over the biblical phraseology in his Hebrew address, interjected: "I can't go on." But go on he did, to the end of the address and for almost four lonely and physically painful years afterward. One morning last week, a few days before his 78th birthday, his heart stopped, and Chaim Weizmann, the man, died...
...that the next Senator from Delaware was going to stop in to see the editor. A word like that from a Du Pont (provided it's the right Du Pont) goes a long way in Delaware. That afternoon Williams & Williams convinced the editor that John was senatorial timber-or at least that he was good enough to take the inevitable beating...
Economically the Metasequoia's value is still undetermined. The Chinese use it for construction purposes: Merrill thinks it may take the place of the white pine as a timber crop in countries where light lumber is scarce--especially in England and New Zealand and perhaps southeastern Australia. South Africa and certain parts of South America...
Unfortunately the future of Metasequoia is still in doubt. The original source of this possible timber crop is limited to only 800 square miles. Roscoe Pound, former Dean of the Law School helped organize a group to preserve the Metasequoia valley as a National Park. "Maybe the Metasequoias will survive better under the new Chinese regime," Merrill commented hopefully, "the Nationalists were cutting them heavily...
Jerry (Harry Belafonte; Victor). The bopsinger-turned-folkstylist gets off this throbbing worksong about timber rolling and a cooperative mule...