Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...length came a morning when Habe, at his observation post, saw the opposing slope mushroom brazenly with helmetless German heads, and their officers, calm on the skyline with spread maps, pointing at him with gloved fingers. The French had no ammunition. Later his phone went dead. He and his two companions realized that everyone had withdrawn behind them. They faced 60,000 Germans. Carrying their 250 pounds of observation equipment-"we were three soldiers unable to lose confidence in the army in a single night"-they retreated...
...C.I.O. steelworkers alone reported a mushroom growth of 100,000 new members, pointed to 200 new contracts (total: 700), a general pay increase throughout the industry of 10? an hour...
Yardlings and Upperclassmen have deluged the nation with flowers and singing telegrams, kittens and a bowl of mushroom soup, heterogeneous evidence of their sentiment on this Valentine...
...looked familiar to last week's visitors, because nearly every apartment-house designer today uses ideas that Wright thought up more than a generation ago. More startling were designs of buildings erected in the past ten years like the Johnson Wax factory at Racine, Wis., whose flimsy-looking mushroom pillars (broad at the top and narrow at the base) involved a brand-new contribution to engineering...
...turn little children's hair white. But Illustrator Nielsen's jagged scenes, plus a new high in animation technique, made it by far Fantasia's best act. As Fantasia took shape, a whole new troupe of Disney comic characters appeared: Hop Low, the self-thwarting little mushroom, who tries to do the Chinese Dance from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, but can't keep up with the big mushrooms; Ben Ali Gator, premier danseur of an ostrich ballet set to Ponchielli's corny Dance of the Hours; Susan, the hippopotamus ballerina whose blimplike cavortings...