Word: fig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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under the hazels, under the fig tree, on the parapet of the bridge, on those long summer evenings . . . Those were the evenings when a light-a bonfire on the distant hills-made me scream and roll on the ground, because I was poor, because I was a boy, because I was nothing." In the end, the hero hardly knows whether he is sorrier that he can't go home again or that he once left. By clenching his writing fist in melodramatic symbols and seizures at his own riddle, Author Pavese loses his grip on the realities he writes...
...jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town become strict, disciplined designs blocked in with arbitrary colors. But there is no trouble recognizing what he paints: his sharp draftsmanship shows all the cruel dryness of Greece's stony uplands, its patterned fields, searing sun, and gaunt, bare-limbed fig trees. Said London's Observer, after seeing the show: "Ghika has extended the boundaries of cubism...
...hostel, built in a commodious fig tree, where Queen Elizabeth was staying when her father died, leaving her the throne (TIME...
...with the withered wayside fig, Christ is also dead, it seems...
...botanists. They often used the same word for different plants, and different words for the same plant. The botanically innocent scholars who produced the King James Version turned aspens into mulberries and dill into anise. The sycomore that Zacchaeus climbed to catch a glimpse of Jesus was undoubtedly a fig tree.* The bulrushes that sheltered the infant Moses were almost certainly papyrus. Many plants that appear in the King James Version never grew in Palestine. Rye, for instance, is a cold-climate crop. The "rie" of the Bible is probably spelt, a primitive relative of wheat...