Word: mushroomed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While TV antennas mushroom from U.S. rooftops, the rest of the world is coming to grips with the new "eater of hours" much more slowly. Only three nations have made even faintly comparable progress : Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union. (Canada hopes to have TV, with U.S. equipment...
...Mushroom Woodcock ("This is a dish like the basic black dress: you can garnish it with accessories...
...crop at all. But other strips were nursed along with fertilizer and crop rotations. During the sixth season, the best strip of man-made topsoil produced 86 bushels of corn an acre, more than twice the U.S. average. Pennsylvania farmers often sell the topsoil of whole fields to mushroom growers. Then, by proper measures, they create new topsoil...
...miles away. A Haganah truck or armored car looked like a tiny beetle as it climbed slowly and unsuspectingly towards danger. As the howitzer fired, Arabs waited tensely for the shell to land, bony brown hands clutching at rifles, eyes narrowed to slits. Another instant and a black mushroom of smoke grew silently out of the road. By the time the sound had echoed back, the vehicle was rolling helplessly down the precipice. From the escarpment rose an Arab cheer; one man jumped up and kissed both chubby cheeks of Captain Selim Assil, a staff officer from Fawzi...
Along with the robin horde, the capital's surest harbinger of spring appeared last week in Washington: John Lewis, pallid as a mushroom, clothed like a mortician, was on the job. "The winter is now gone," he said. He had arrived to talk about a coal strike...