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Word: fruitful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conquest; makes flamboyant love to a young lady employed at the home; and with a bit of help, swipes the equipment and supplies for a rousing charity bazaar. Though the truth about him gradually leaks out and he himself at last goes away, his rosy swindle continues to bear fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Though truckers are the elite of the Western Conference, it is a corral which also contains dozens of other, oddly unrelated trades. In Beck's domain "teamsters" make beer, can fruit, dehydrate vegetables, sell and service automobiles, pump gasoline, work in warehouses, and clean suits. They are undertakers, cow punchers and aircraft mechanics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Herdsman | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...confused when they arrived for lunch. For one thing, they couldn't find the silverware; for another they couldn't find the butter, and after all what good is a turkey dinner without butter? Both were on the tables, along with mansize paper napkins, and a bowl of real fruit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thanksgiving Was Brimmin' With Turkeys and Trimmin' | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

...undergraduate dining halls will operate on Sunday hours over the holiday, with the average menn offering soup, roast turkey and cranberry sauce, peas and potatoes, celery and radishes, Parker House rolls, fruit salad, mince or pumpkin pie, and plum pudding. Pictured at right are three cooks of the Kirkland house central kitchen as they clean up several newly-arrived birds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turkeys Arrive for Thanksgiving Banquets | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

...music predominated, but he final song was "Strange Fruit" and Josh was no longer a "troubadour" as the program announced. "This song needs no introduction," he said. As he sang, he became a witness for the Negro people, a person with something to say, not an entertainer with a guitar. He told of the mournful South where men are still hanging from the trees, the "strange fruit" that is everyone's poison. Cheers and clapping followed the guitar off the stage but the praise was all of Josh White...

Author: By Donald P. Spence, | Title: Josh White | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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