Word: dogwood
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...archaeologists, the Iceman's fur quiver is an even rarer prize. "It is the only quiver from the Neolithic period found in the whole world," Egg marvels. Its cargo of feathered arrows marks another first. Carved from viburnum and dogwood branches, a dozen of them were unfinished. But two were primed for shooting -- with flint points and feathers. The feathers had been affixed with a resin-like glue at an angle that would cause spin in flight and help maintain a true course. "It is significant that ballistic principles were known and applied," says Notdurfter. The quiver also held...
Suddenly the silence was broken by the boom of a shotgun. Three police cruisers, their tires squealing, encircled an old faded green station wagon idling at a curb. A pack of fresh-faced young men and women in navy blue polyester jackets dashed around the corner of the Dogwood Inn motel. Each brandished a drawn revolver and a look that said, One false move, and you're dead...
...that dogwood, how it's fringed with raindrops? That's an effect you can get only on days like this," says Bussewitz, a sprightly man in his early 70s. Buzzy, as he prefers to be called, has studied plants for more than 40 years and has been a volunteer at the arboretum for more than a decade since his retirement...
...spent a year in the Gate City to the South, which was then still known to some as the Dogwood City, around the time it was trying to become the City Too Busy to Hate. That's the way people in Atlanta might think of it, and that's the way I think of it. We share a weakness for slogans. This was at the beginning of the '60s, and I was a reporter covering the civil rights story. Those who traveled the South back then -- reporters or regional auditors or salesmen with the Southeast territory -- came to roost...
Last month, at a disarmament rally in New York City, the brothers prayed for peace while dancing around a newly planted Japanese dogwood tree in Central Park. Their trip had included two other stops, one in New Haven, where they joined in a prayer service in support of a man facing criminal charges in connection with a protest against Trident submarines, the other in Washington, D.C., where they participated in an evening of prayer and music for Salvadoran refugees. "Radical peacemaking," the monks believe, is a natural outgrowth of the Gospel...