Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the report had not been confirmed, but in any case, Ukraine rains had been torrential for almost a month, and detailed descriptions poured through Europe's gossip centers of "an avalanche of unstemmed water, floating wreckage and drowned men, trees, livestock, and houses down to the delta." Berlin said that German artillery had foiled the blowup, but that "the swirling waters of the milewide, swamp-bordered river might have temporarily slowed the German advance." For the Russians it was a week of drainage. On boats, barges, tree trunks, rafts of boughs and oil drums, soldiers...
...Henderson had sponsored Communist-controlled organizations. At the next committee hearing Leon jumped to his feet, blurted that Dies was "not a responsible member of Congress." When Georgia's Edward Eugene Cox described him as "a man operating under the alias Leon Henderson," Leon angrily cited his family tree back to 1800 to prove that he was no alien with an Anglicized name. Winding up like a badly written comic opera, the hearings proved only that politics and economics cannot speak the same language, even in a crisis...
...Four weeks: The baby acts like a tiny tree ape, lashing his arms, clenching his fists. He lies mostly on his side with his head turned, one arm extended, the other flexed. He turns his head and eyes through an arc of 90° to look at rings and rattles, listen to a bell. When the doctor tries to pull him up, his head sags back...
Leeb is the most consciously aristocratic, the most austere. Because he wrote a Chronicle of the Leeb Family, he has been called the Family-Tree General. His friend Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm List, who commanded the Balkan campaign, once said: "If Leeb ever tried to smile, it would crack his face." His coldness has deprived him of friends, but he is respected as an upright professional soldier. He lost a son in Poland...
When the "Tree of Hope" (supposed to provide an immediate job for any actor who touched it) was knocked down on a Harlem street corner where it grew, Tap Dancer Bill Robinson joined the frantic crowd that tore it to splinters; trying to save it, he salvaged two chunky hunks. / / Dated to sing this week at a ball at wealthy Mrs. Herbert Shipman's plushy villa in Newport is her new neighbor, Gertrude Niesen, chatelaine of the Oelrichs mansion. / / Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 24 and twice a father, won his appeal to Washington for draft deferment as a family...