Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose peaceful blue-green waters merged with the yellow Ohio, out on the Mississippi, with its streaming files of ducks and geese, the boat sailed on. "Red-yellow moon," wrote Irving, "silver star-calm, cobalt-green sky reflected in river . . . wide, treeless, prairie-trembling with heat-here not a tree or a shrub was to be seen -a view like that of the ocean . . . beautiful clear river, group of Indian nymphs half naked on banks...
Bleary-eyed, but confident of unsets all around, we sit dreaming of a white Christmas. Yes, before this literary mess again hits print old Santa will have come and gone. Trees are scattered round the unit here and there, but "Mitch's" individual little tree seems to take top honors. A desk job, "Mich" is proud of his spirit...
From Fruit to Rice. The boys get up at 5 a.m. for classes and practical farm work. They experiment with nearly every standard crop, many new introductions. Emphasis is on dairying, a crying need in the milk-poor tropics. But other courses, run from fruit-tree grafting to rice cultivation...
...with little change from his peacetime routine. Paper rationing has cut Punch's pages to 28 an issue, has limited its circulation to about 100,000. The staff can no longer hold its weekly meetings with favored contributors around the plain deal table that Thackeray called "the mahogany tree," for the old table is safely hidden in the country and the contributors are scattered over the world's battlefronts...
This official robomb short includes some astutely quiet shots: of placid wheat, a blowing summer tree in the wasted city, children picking their way, with touching shyness, among freshly ruined homes. It also has some intensely exciting shots of the bombs in flight, fantastic as Buck Rogers and intimately sinister as a noise in the wall, a weirdly terrible expression and symbol of the enemy. And there is one tremendous moment when, in one of the most sensational scenes of the war, a V-1 is caught on the wing by a British plane, roars the screen full...