Word: orchard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader: Apple Fancier Mildred Austin, wife of onetime Vermont Senator and U.N. Delegate Warren R. Austin. "After an absence of approximately twenty-two years ..." she chatted, "we are living permanently in our Burlington, Vt. home, where my husband is able to devote much of his time to his beloved orchard, renewing daily his devotion to the United Nations in his international orchard . . . During the month of August the aroma of a deep apple pie, or a dish of warm apple sauce, made from freshly hand-picked Red Astrachans . . . is seldom out of our kitchen, adding just one more...
...aged parents. Something nice and quiet, said the young man, adding: "Price means nothing to me." Impressed, the agent showed M. Riviere a large house, somewhat run-down -its porch sagged and its roof leaked-but basically sound and set in seven fine acres of vineyard and orchard. A working-class family named Dupuis with five children lived there rent-free...
Edward P. Almy, Dedham, Mass.; Edward P. Bliss, Sherborn, Mass.; John R. Bray, Orchard Park, N. Y.; George W. Chase, Canton, Mass.; Richard J. Clasby, Natick, Mass.; Walter S. Cooledge 3d, Arlington, Mass.; Thomas J. Coolidge Jr., Brookline, Mass.; Walter F. Greeley, Framingham, Mass.; Edward A. Hubbard, South Natick, Mass.; Francis X. Mahoney, Boston, Mass.; Douglas C. Manchester, Newton, Mass.; Edward J. Mrkonich, Eveleth, Minn.; James B. O'Brien, Cambridge, Mass.; Edwin B. Richardson, New York City; Reginald N. Wood, Marblehead, Mass.; Maynard W. Powning, Wayland, Mass...
Died. Roy Orchard Woodruff, 76, longtime (1913-15, 1921-52) Republican Congressman from Michigan who entered the House as a winner on Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose ticket, was a conservative shaper of G.O.P. policy during 14 years as chairman of the House Republican Conference; after long illness; in Washington...
...Peasant." Though Stalin loves to quiz his associates on Marx and party history, he distrusts intellectuals, says Author Svanidze. Speaking to one about his grape orchard in the Caucasus, Stalin said: "That orchard was watered with my sweat! You can't understand that, you intellectual anarchist! I'm a peasant by birth . . . and a gardener and wine grower on top of that. It's a race apart. It's the best race to run a country...