Word: wooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Risk of War." Besieged Berlin was tense and tired. A chilly rain fell. U.S. and British armored cars prowled sluggishly through streets that breathed the smells peculiar to ruins in the rain-smells of wet bricks, damp dust and scorched wood. On street corners, people gathered to haggle over the exchange rate between Soviet and Western marks or to buy black market herring. At the Anhalter station, where the city's food supplies from the Western zones used to roll in, before the Russians blocked the railway, only a few forlorn figures stirred-an old man in ill-fitting...
Last week, the morning the season opened at Silver Creek, the weather was just right. Oldtimer Art Wood, a guide from Sun Valley, grinned as he stalked through some willows to his pet spot. After a few expert casts (his friends say that he can put his fly into a sugar bowl at 30 paces), there was a resounding splash and his rod bent double. He played the fighting rainbow and pulled out a three-pounder-middling by Silver Creek standards. Then he caught eight more. Up & downstream from him, oblivious to buzzing mosquitoes, were ardent anglers who had camped...
Actress Peggy Wood, longtime top-ranking sweet young thing, now playing mother roles: "Every age has its particular compensations...
...seemed that "the whole canine population of France and Belgium" had collected to be evacuated, too. Troops took to the water on homemade rafts-and it was a sight to see one such raft, made of wood and an old door and manned by a French officer and two Belgians, equipped for the voyage with a very old bicycle, two tins of crackers, and "six demijohns of wine." In the main, French soldiers, naturally chary of seawater, refused to wade out to the boats (one officer even signaled: "I have just eaten and am therefore unable to enter the water...
Deutsch jigs, gavottes and polkas were interspersed with impromptu soft-shoe routines by extroverted dancers. "Well er I mean, it sure was different," sighed Elizabeth Wood, a striking coed from Kansas...