Word: poplar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...encamped in a small office in Palo Alto, Calif., receives notification of at least 100 new events each day. They expect crowds of hundreds of thousands of people in New York City and Washington, and out in Tennessee the good green thumbs are expecting to plant 4 million tulip poplar seedlings. The quiet celebrations of kids and oldsters in backyards and nursing homes will be as dense as the stars in the heavens -- the ones we used...
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...
...crescendo of toppling communist dominoes shook Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, 71, vowed that reform would come to Rumania "when pears grow on poplar trees." He ignored warnings from Gorbachev that he should begin easing up before it was too late to avoid violence. After 24 years of ruling by fear, Ceausescu rejected the idea of change...