Word: eucalyptuses
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...Fraser, wife of the master of the Stirling Castle, which had foundered off the Australian coast. Stranded in the wilderness, Mrs. Fraser was drafted into a tribe whose men roared with laughter at her inability to climb trees after honey, and sped her up the eucalyptus with blazing brands applied to her rump. She was fed on the entrails of snakes and fish...
Torrential rains turned Baghdad's ancient streets into a morass of mud, splashed monotonously on the broad, glossy leaves of the eucalyptus trees that screen the chocolate-colored walls of Al Zuhour palace from public view. Al Zu-hour palace is the birthplace of Iraq's 22-year-old Hashemite King Feisal, whose line has waged a blood feud intermittently for over half a century with the usurping Sauds of Arabia. But last week, for seven busy and significant days, the palace served as a royal guest house for King Saud of Saudi Arabia...
...weather had been gloomy for weeks, but for the games it kindly brightened. From the opening shot of a starter's gun, they got off to a crowd-pleasing start, and Olympic records fell like eucalyptus leaves. And, scorekeeping or no, it quickly became a suspenseful duel between the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. fielded the best team ever assembled- including such 1952 Olympic champions as Shotputter Parry O'Brien (see below). Soviet Russia, shut out of all the gold medals in men's track at the Helsinki Olympics, sent to Australia a well-trained and determined...
Early one morning last week at Nicosia Central Prison, a low-walled building of yellow sandstone hidden among dusty eucalyptus trees, the nooses were hung, the traps set to deal out the stern punishment. With Koutsoftas and Panayides on the scaffold stood 23-year-old Stelios Mavrommatis, sentenced to death for shooting at two R.A.F. men (he did not hit them). Fearing a Cypriot demonstration, British troops set up radio posts and roadblocks to guard every approach to the prison. For most of the night there was only deathly quiet. Then, sometime before dawn, through the muffling thickness...
...House. Partner Theodore Bernardi, 52, who won a merit award for the pleasantly informal redwood house he designed for himself, chose a hillside site for maximum privacy and view. Main feature: an expansive wood deck, surrounded by oak and eucalyptus trees and overlooking San Francisco Bay. The Wurster-designed house in Stockton, which won the second merit award, is a simple rectangle with large overhanging roof, "a hot-climate house with a hat on it. It was meant to be a house for older people to retire in with dignity. It has big rooms but few of them...