Word: orchard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the end of last year, the colony had ten cows; 50 of its 320 acres had been cleared for vegetable gardens and 300 orchard trees had been planted. The elders met, decided to lift the ban on children. In July, husky, unmarried, 36-year-old Florence Berikoff bore the first child, a boy. It was, said Colony Spokesman Joseph Podovinikoff, "the first free motherhood" based on 400-year-old Doukhobor principles...
...look at our apple trees and say, 'My, my, just look at all those dollars hanging on the trees.' They think we just sat on the porch and watched them grow. They don't know that a lot of good hard work has gone into that orchard...
Corn, soybeans, alfalfa, wheat, cattle and hogs-everything had "done fine." Buildings gleamed in a new coat of white paint. New cider and fruit packing houses, equipped with stainless steel tanks and refrigerating units, stood near the main house. There was a new $1,500 orchard duster and an elevator that hoisted corn from the wagons into the cribs...
Amherst's golf team, the only squad that beat Harvard in regular competition last year, meets the varsity at 2 p.m. today at the Orchard Country Club in South Hadley...
Exit Into Sunset. Yenan's most remarkable form of entertainment was the "living newspaper" in which amateur mimes enacted current events. Sample: General Eisenhower invading Normandy atop a human landing barge (see cut). Sugar-coated propaganda also pervaded the Saturday night dances regularly held in a Yenan apple orchard at which Mao appeared in simple peasant dress to dance with his wife, Mme. Chu Teh, Mme. Chou Enlai, or pretty Communist office girls. For these occasions, the Communists revived (and revised) an old, gay Chinese dance form called the Yang-ko. Sample: a shepherd is asleep by his flock...