Word: woodses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Compared with the records of other new planes, those problems are surprisingly few and are rapidly being solved. John Shaffer, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, estimates that within three weeks the airlines will be "out of the woods" with their 747 engine troubles. Meanwhile, most of the passengers and...
In the latter days of its existence, the tower got rather grandiose ideas and started to assume the same posture as its friend in Pisa. The Salemites, not so tolerant or brave as the Pisans, had the poor old thing razed, and its tenants went to Post's Woods...
As Charles Burchfield saw it, any landscape painter worthy of the name had to take his nature raw. "You cannot experience a landscape until you have known all its discomforts," he said. "You have to curse, fight mosquitoes, fall over rocks and skin your knees, be stung by nettles, scratched...
Graphic Symbols. Burchfield's love of nature verged on the mystical; more than once, he confided in the journal he kept for more than 50 years, he fled the woods in terror of mysterious presences. "I have never learned to talk and have only listened to the trees," he...
Stagnant Empire. In addition to exotic woods, there were cacao and tobacco, the latter actually called "Trinidad" in early 17th century Europe. Nations had strict trade regulations, but they meant little in the face of raw opportunism. The Spanish had a saying: "The law is to be obeyed but not...