Word: vines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heavy garments, with goggles and big asbestos gloves, he toted a bulging burlap sack. Even technicians at the fort's medical laboratory shrank back. "Unclean, unclean," said one of them. "Phooey," replied Sergeant Seymour Shapiro. From his sack he pulled one of the long, leafy, hairy-stemmed vines of poison ivy he had been gathering, cut the vine into 3-ft. lengths and hung the pieces in bundles, like curing tobacco, from the ceiling...
...paused for hot coffee in one of the Chinese restaurants and headed north. They were Fred Capes, construction expert for the Public Roads Administration, and Colonels William Hoge and R.D. Ingalls. Jamming down fur caps, they slogged through snow drifts, checking grades, rivers, elevations. Rumors spread by the "moccasin vine" that at last the Americans were going to build the Alaska highway...
...months of war the British people have forfeited most of their customary freedoms-of habeas corpus, of information, of occupation, of buying, of travel. Last week the War Office took wry notice of one freedom which, as everybody else knew all along, has grown as lustily as a cucumber vine. This is the freedom of companionship...
...buds swelled to bursting on Hitler's vine of war, the saboteurs against the New Order were still nipping at the roots underground. Last week, from governments-in-exile and other anti-Axis sources, there were many reports of their slow, courageous work...
...socialist Sir Stafford, during his visit to a land whose 352,000,000 people are mostly dirt poor, had chosen instead to live a mile away in the vine-covered, chintzy bungalow of Sir Andrew Gourlay Clow, Communications Member of the Government of India...