Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Public. But the people were not entirely sheep. A few shoppers' strikes turned up. Sample: New York and Boston dealers, expecting to clean up on the well ballyhooed Christmas-tree shortage (they are not ceiling-priced), were stuck with a tree surplus when they had hoped to stick the citizenry...
...uncle once who could play like Whiteman. He played two instruments at the same time. With the left side of his mouth he played Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries. With the right side of his mouth he played Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree. And with the middle of his mouth he blew out the seeds...
...Novelists. It was a bumper year for best-selling first novelists (most of them women) and writers with one or two books already published who switched from the remainder lists to the best-seller lists. Among the former were: Betty Smith, whose A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ($2.75) sold 460,000 copies in four months, Ilka Chase (In Bed We Cry, $2.50), Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls, $2.50), Helen Howe (The Whole Heart, $2.50), Allan Seager (Equinox, $2.75). Notable among the second group were Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead, $3) and Christine Weston, who with two unknown novels...
...first waves of assault battalions. They were United Pressman Richard Johnston, Associated Pressman William Hippie, Don Senick of Fox Movietone News, A.P. Cameraman Frank Filan and I. All saw men killed beside them in landing boats or on the beach. Senick alone suffered injury; a Jap bullet hit a tree under which he was sitting and dropped...
...little puddles of sand were hot enough to burn my toes. . . . 'Trouble, trouble, trouble,' Grandpa whispered. . . . 'Man born of woman is full of trouble.'. . . The wind lifted Grandpa's white corn-silk beard up and down.... He was bent like an old tree weighted down with branches. . . . Uncle Mott's face was almost as white as the milkweed furze that I've tried to catch on the meader.... I'd say it was more the color of a yellow clay road when it dries out in the spring...