Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negro press does indeed exploit sensational race stories but these strictures merely made a bad situation worse. Editorialized the Detroit Free Press: "Wholly inadequate. . . . Every race and every minority group has its false leaders. This merely shakes the tree instead of getting at the roots." Said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "The country has been informed of certain factors that Governor Kelly's committee hasn't deigned to mention: that the old, discredited Ku Klux Klan is operating in Detroit; that wartime industry has brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial...
Private Robert Martin took a card out of his pocket and showed it to me. It was a birthday greeting from his wife, and it read: "Birthday greetings to my better half. What sunshine means to flowers, what leaves mean to a tree, what springtime means to songbirds. ..." Hrumph! hrumph! hrumph! the bombs fell, and I ducked, and then looked up and read the last line of the greeting: "That's what you mean to me." "Songbirds, huh?" said Martin, looking up into...
...Fruit on the shaded side of a tree has less vitamin C than that on the sunny side...
...Tree Plan. In West Plains, Mo., the walnut tree which C. A. Widener planted in 1893 went to its planned reward. His coffin was made from...
...holding a bridge against a frontal attack their three Browning automatics became overheated, could no longer be used. Later, in the presence of his commanding officer, Lieut. Kliebert told correspondents what happened next: "The Japs who got through to one of our litter cases propped the man against a tree and five Japs took turns bayoneting him. I got three of them. . . . We saw Japs pull blankets off litter cases and line them up. ... They cut one of the poor lads from the top of his head to his feet, meanwhile laughing deliriously. Then they shot him through the head...