Word: hornbeam
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With the names of trees you can make a fine pagan bouquet of words: hornbeam, ginkgo, quickbeam, oak, white willow, tamarind, Lombardy poplar, false cypress, elder, laburnum, larch, baobab, black gum, rowan, hazel, whitebeam, tree of heaven...
...Czechoslovak Supreme Court and the man in charge of reviewing the trials of the Stalinist purge victims of the 1950s, apparently took his own life after learning of a newspaper article denouncing his role in a rigged trial during that decade. His body was found hanging from a hornbeam tree in the woods south of Prague, an empty bottle of cheap wine at his feet. On an island in the Vltava River, more than 3,000 people imprisoned and tortured when the Communists first came to power met to praise Dubček and unfurl a white banner that read...
...thick that cats, owls, fox, etc., are getting many more than hunters. We've seen eight in one tree this season, never went out a day without flushing at least 20 in short time. No apples this year, consequently all birds in thick woods, feeding on thornapples, hornbeam buds, and ground seeds...
Gypsy Smith was born in England, 79 years ago, in a tent under a hornbeam tree. Until he was 18, he never slept in a house. A peddler of clothespins which his father, a Christianized gypsy, carved of hornbeam wood, Rodney Smith taught himself to read from a Bible and a dictionary. Under the hornbeam tree he preached his first faltering homily. To the same tree he returned four years ago, a falterer no longer, to preach to 12,000 people. By that time, he estimated, 40,000,000 had heard him-as a Salvation Army recruit under William Booth...
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