Word: willow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then he fenced the whole from stem to stern with willow withes to be a defence against the wave, and strewed much brush thereon...
...room is almost oppressive in its humanity. At odd corners of the room are numerous animals; each comes as a surprise. Swinging from the sloppy bookshelf is a toy monkey. A pink trojan horse and grey kitten sit on the desk. Also on the desk stands a willow plant, to which is attached a single large, yellow bee. And a gaint green cotton frog is perched on the magazine table...
SUMMARY--Team competition, first round against Toronto (Harvard winning, 5-0); Bill Morris over John Ireton, 15-8, 15-9, 15-10; Lou Williams over Mort Willow, 15-12, 15-11, 4-15, 15-8; Paul Sullivan over Jim Coons, 13-15, 16-13, 10-15, 17-15, 15-3; Doug Walter over Gord Gryatt, 15-10, 15-8, 17-16; Terry Robinson over Erv Herman...
...number of vigilantes find it offensive to discover Communist willow baskets creeping into fine American homes, that's their business, of course. The curious thing about all of this is Woolworth's new-found politico-economic consciousness. It took, after all, years of sit-ins and picketing, thousands of letters and even some jail sentences, to get the chain store to integrate its lunch counters all over the country. Stupid anti-Communist gestures evidently give Woolworth's more serious pocketbook jitters than do widespread movements for expanded democracy and civil rights here at home...
...regrettably small) audience to hear Mrs. Filo do the rest of her numbers with a piano, bass and drums trio. She concluded the brilliant first set with "an imitation of Eartha Kitt singing I Want to Be Bad" which was all Filo--no Kitt. And her versions later of Willow Weep for Me and the too-little-known Something Cool demonstrated what I think is her most impressive gift: she has an astonishing stylistic range, big as Ethel Merman one minute, gentle as Chris Connors the next...