Word: spruced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clash of opinion reverberates among the luthiers, or violinmakers, as well. Some figure that Stradivari got his wood from as far away as Germany, but most agree that the supple spruce in the tops of his fiddles came from the southern slopes of the Alps, and the curly maple in the bottom and sides from the eastern shores of the Adriatic. To find identical cuts of wood, U.S. Luthier Fernando Sacconi scavenged demolition sites in Italy last summer and salvaged planking from 400-year-old houses. To duplicate the seasoned willow that Stradivari used for braces, one U.S. luthier uses...
What makes a good country restaurant worth the trip? Basically, skillfully prepared food, an excellent selection of wines and attentive service-plus one magic ingredient: setting. Whether the restaurant is placed among dark spruce and silver birch beside a mountain stream in Vermont (Manchester's Toll Gate Lodge) or beneath giant pecans and live oaks in Texas (Salado's Stagecoach Inn), it offers a view and a personality that its city cousins can never match...
...steadily across Alaska last week in the worst series of forest fires that the state has seen in nearly a decade. Culminating a summer in which more than 200 fires have occurred, the biggest fire of all raged around the Fortymile River's West Fork, consuming the black spruce, cottonwood and paper birch and turning the green hills to barren black. At week's end, six other major fires spreading across a 500-mile arc still ravaged the nation's largest state...
Lady L. Careering madly through the countryside, a battered Daimler eats up both sides of the road, veers away into grassy fields, finally wheezes to a halt at one of England's stateliest homes. Out of the limousine steps Sophia Loren as Lady L, a spruce 80-year-old who bears a striking resemblance to the late Dowager Queen Mary. Well-wishers greet her with respect, for she is the progenitor of four generals, an admiral, a bishop and other dignitaries, several of whose names escape...
Coach Cooney Weiland will have to spruce up his lineup again for the contest with the Big Red. Bill Coleman, the Crimson's surprising late arrival, will probably play number one for the second match in a row, while regular top man Brian McGuinn recuperates from an operation. McGuinn, will be out until the Yale match...