Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...physical fitness tests, and emphasize that tot classes help develop motor skills, balance and flexibility. In addition, the 45- to 50-minute sessions introduce children to a variety of equipment: giant balls, hoops, tunnels, slides, mats and trampolines. Says Ellen Cutter, $ administrator of Leaps & Bounds, a popular program in Oak Park, Ill.: "It's an environment that encourages kids to be physically active and to delight in using their bodies...
...pump, a gift from Radcliffe to the College on the occasion of Harvard's 350th anniversary, is an oak replica of the 1936 pump which last occupied the site...
...Thus does the life cycle on the White House grounds go on even as in the political world. The Benjamin Harrison Quercus coccinea dropped a limb over the fence onto Pennsylvania Avenue the other night. Nobody was underneath, thank goodness. But be wary. A 100-year-old scarlet oak has some privileges when it suddenly wearies. Nonetheless, the trunk of that tree is still sturdy, and it will be around in one form or another many more years...
...healthy and firmly rooted by the south entrance to the White House, and its branches reach up to the windows of the Reagan bedroom. Lyndon Johnson's Quercus phellos has leaped from 15 ft. to 50 ft. in 13 years. Just like the man who planted it, the willow oak seems determined to be bigger and better than anything else within sight. Dwight Eisenhower's Quercus palustris is already 75 ft. tall and shows no sign of slowing down; pin oaks are devils in competition. Jimmy Carter's youngster, Acer rubrum, is a red maple that is putting...
...anything slowed down Herbert Hoover's Quercus alba, standing a proud 60 ft. In fact, the Hoover white oak has grown rotund, reminding visitors of the fellow who planted it 56 years ago. It makes you wonder if there is some mystic force in Irvin Williams' 18 acres where Nature imitates human nature. Williams has seen just about everything else in his 26 years of coaxing trees, flowers, grass, birds and squirrels to coexist on top of and among security alarms, underground cables and rooms. The battle is constant, but he loves it. There is Grover Cleveland's Acer palmatum...