Word: willow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unaccountable reasons (so unaccountable that his friends suspect a heart attack), De-rossett did not slow down. Instead, the bus rammed the wrecker, knocked it 60 ft. The bus itself lurched, swayed, tipped for a moment at the top of the embankment, then slithered through a grove of willow trees into the river. It hung for agonizing minutes in 3 ft. of water-long enough and shallow enough for 13-year-old Bill Leedy to kick open the rear emergency door, push smaller children out, then escape himself. Other passengers frantically rolled down windows and crawled out. Altogether 20 children...
BETTY J. BORTHWICK Willow Grove...
...three of the visiting teams arrived in the same airplane, on a trip which began at Boston's Logan Airport early this morning. The Crimson boarded a chartered United Airlines DC-6 at Logan, picked up the Clarkson team at Syracuse, and the Michigan team at Willow Run, Michigan...
...hand pressed flat and white against the black skirt, the other holding the script before her, she read the Queen's description of Ophelia's drowning in a soft, haunting voice. "There is a willow grows aslant a brook...
...short stories, it is a sure sign of gusto to follow. Ten pages after the loss has been reported, the bereaved youth is floating disconsolately downstream in a punt, while the evangelist who has come to restore his faith is clinging hopelessly to the branch of a willow tree and slowly sinking, like "a declining dogma," into the cold river water. The moral of this brisk little story is: Be sure your feet are on firm ground before you extend a helping hand...