Word: fig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fountain, but Pizarro's spirit still inhabits the Plaza de Armas. His mummy, bones protruding through dark yellow skin, lies in a glass case in the cathedral. Lima's charter, kept in the city hall, shows the double loop the illiterate conqueror used as a signature. The fig tree he planted at the palace still lives. In 1935, there was added a 22-foot statue of Pizarro on horseback, which dominated the plaza from a lofty pedestal rising out of the cathedral's steps...
...Forest Lawn- "the bright and cheerful private slumber rooms ... the beautiful vistas of green lawns and tall trees"-reinforces the theology.* But Dr. (honorary LL.D.) Eaton, who has already stocked his cemetery with a trove of religious paintings and statuary (including a replica of Michelangelo's David, with fig leaf added), has not found a picture of Christ that looks happy enough to go with his convictions...
...away. Government officials at Amman at first viewed the report-and the cops-with suspicion. Then they went to have a look. Sure enough, there was a 40,000-square-meter chunk of mountain moving majestically down the valley in a slow-motion landslide. By nature's whimsy, fig trees that had been on one side of the road were now on the other, and bean fields had moved intact to new locations...
...washboard, and to which an Indian prince once wrote for a bronco (he got it). For a price, its customers can get every nicety of modern living-from ten varieties of outdoor grills and 90 types of coffeemakers to rhinestone dog collars (for the cocktail hour) and bronze fig leaves (for statues...
...first of TIME'S editorial "weekend") on the alert for cables from London. In Nyeri, Kenya, Correspondent Alexander Campbell, who had spanned a third of the African continent to accompany the royal tour, was writing a story about Elizabeth and Philip watching jungle animals from a fig tree. The royal couple had no engagements, so Wednesday was to be a free day. But at 10:37 Wednesday morning, London time, the news came from Buckingham Palace: King George VI had died during the night...