Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Near Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee is a green woodland dot with man-made pits and a steadily pond. Both pits and pond been used for the disposal of ra wastes, so an 8-ft. chain-link fringed with barbed wire keeps people away from the dangers. Unmanned monitor stations, looking like small refrigerators packed with instruments, keep for signs of trouble. Last sum some of the monitors began to give high readings. One reported than one roentgen per hour, and takes an accumulated dose of only roentgens to kill...
Through the open French doors came the sound of fountains splashing and the snip of gardeners cutting back foliage. Inside, men clad in shorts, slacks and sports shirts sat beneath an oak-beamed ceiling. Idyllic? No, pedagogic. The men were policymakers from 35 U.S. business firms, spending six weeks in an atmosphere that is part classroom, part sales conference and part religious retreat at the 25th session of Columbia University's Executive Program in Business Administration...
...Inspiration Flowed." Rome was not built in a day, and neither were Manzù's doors. In 1947, the sculptor entered an international competition for new portals to replace makeshift oak ones that were considered temporary for 500 years. He won out over 76 other artists. But once he had won, Manzù admitted, the commission bored him. He cast, and then rejected, a scale model of the doors in 1954, eventually discarded more than 300 sketches for the project...
...stood deep within the Bois de Verrières just south of Paris. Above the boy's head, a giant oak reared away into the predawn darkness. "Tell me," he asked the man, "are there wolves here?" The man placed a reassuring hand on the nape of the boy's neck. "No, my little Luc, there are no wolves." Slowly the man's hand tightened...
...body of Jean-Luc Taron, aged 11, was found face down beneath the oak tree at 5:30 on the morning of May 27. The back of the neck was severely bruised, and the boy's nostrils were filled with loam, indicating that the murderer had used the soft forest floor for two purposes: to smother the cries of his victim, and to bring about death by suffocation...