Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deep. In Tokyo and to the south, an early frost sparkled on the richly tinted autumn leaves. But as the trees shed their leaves, Japanese shed their kimonos, one by one, to sell for food. They even devised an ironic name for their wretched existence: takenoko, after the bamboo sprout which peels, layer by layer...
Finding this raw material quickly and completely demands patience, imagination and a real knowledge of the resources of the morgue each librarian is responsible for. Their work, however, would be painfully handicapped if the morgue were left to sprout at will. To keep it vigorous, its files have to be constantly pruned of dead material. For example, although some 600 new names are added to the biography file every month, an equal number of folders whose subjects are no longer of news interest are weeded out - illustrative, perhaps, of a journalistic axiom that it takes a very staunch, or lucky...
William Bradford Sprout...
...newly-planted House lawns will sprout soon-asparagus, peas, cucumbers, squash...
...newest trade territory of McCormick & Co., Inc., largest wholesale spice dealers in the U.S., was beginning to sprout orders. Six ex-G.I.s sent into the rich Chicago area early this month had hired more World War II vets, and the whole crew was hot after new business...