Word: cypress
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...Cypress remains. And the laurel. --from Romiossini by Yiannis Ritsos...
...ring-around-the-collar. His thick, wavy clump of dark hair overhangs eyes screwed tight in a lopsided squint, a brow that is permanently furrowed and a leathery puss smudged with unshavable stubble. With stocky shoulders hunched forward at a 45° angle, he looks like an ambulatory cypress stump in baggy brown pants. And the raincoat. The raincoat is an oversized, unhung affair in the last stages of decomposition, scarred and seasoned with the grease of a thousand fingers, its hems frayed and stringy, its pockets attached more by habit than by thread...
Flanked on one side by a panorama of the Pacific Ocean, the graceful symmetry of this immaculately tended course is broken only by clumps of grotesquely gnarled cypress. Behind the 122-yd. third hole stands a solitary wooden bench beneath an enormous royal palm where President Nixon -who seldom plays the course-likes to sit in private tranquillity at dusk...
Like Nettles Island, most luxury camps are situated in well-traveled areas. Outdoor Resorts' 980-site camp near Orlando is within an hour's drive of Walt Disney World, Cape Kennedy and the Cypress Gardens at Winter Haven. In Gatlinburg, Tenn., both Outdoor Resorts and its major rival, Venture Out in America, Inc., run campsites across from the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, the most popular national park...
tall as a cypress...