Word: oak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the diseased oak, 10,000 sap-green trees...
...oak, but that Red China "is flourishing and hopeful, like a thousand sails racing ahead and ten thousand trees turning green...
Gravy Train. Bryant's salesmanship paid off. A steady stream of sturdy stalwarts rode the gravy train to the oak-dotted Tuscaloosa campus, eager to knock heads and - in Bryant's words - "suck up their guts" for dear old 'Bama. Halfback Mike Fracchia (6 ft. 1 in., 186 lbs.) came from Memphis, Tenn., because "I wanted to play on a good team and I knew Coach Bryant was going to turn one out." Among Bryant's first batch of hand-picked recruits were two of Alabama's brightest stars: Quarterback Pat Trammell and Tackle Billy...
...class cutup and showoff. Raised in suburban Boston, where his father ran a chain of movie theaters, he was forever going to school with phony bandages on his head, explaining that his mother had hit him with a rolling pin or, after the 1938 hurricane, that a falling oak had beaned him. Something had to be done, or so it seemed, and eventually Morse was sent off to the lower school of the Christian Scientist Principia College in Illinois. Peccadilloes there were punished as sins. When Bobby stole a dollar or so from his house mother's coin collection...
...figures in the development of the atom bomb, spent the war years directing chemical research at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory-under the Army's Manhattan Project. Seaborg was largely responsible for the chemical separation processes used in the manufacture of plutonium at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Richland, Wash., in the tense months before Hiroshima...