Word: redwood
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...possible poolhole is a concession by the commission that it will allow pools and small redwood "spas" to be heated "for therapeutic purposes." In the future, heated pools may have to be called natatoriums, while their owners brandish doctors' certificates attesting that they are polio victims. Other Californians may have to join pool pools...
...enough. "What possible good purpose can come from this intense coverage of terrorist activity?" he demanded on the floor of the House. "Individuals of questionable mental stability will surely begin to conclude that they too can obtain national publicity and an enlarged forum for their views on redwood trees and other irrelevancies simply by attempting to gun down the President...
With the Harrises in hand, the FBI quickly shifted its attention to 625 Morse Street, a concrete house with redwood facing. About two weeks ago, a young sandy-haired man had rented the small upstairs apartment, paying the $180-per-month rent with a check signed "Charlie Adams." Later, another man-shorter and darker-briefly helped "Adams" move in along with a woman wearing slacks and a big floppy hat that completely obscured her face. Like the Harrises, "Adams" and the woman made a good first impression on their neighbors. Later, the couple were joined by a girl...
...their leisure time, young couples stroll around a man-made lake, watch movies, listen to quadraphonic stereo, or play pool in the recreation room of their glass and redwood housing complex. At first glance, they could be students at some bright new community college. But campuses are not bounded by barbed wire-topped fences, and students are not kept under scrutiny around the clock...
Customers can choose from among 1,000 trees, including some cherries, and receive redwood plaques with their names on them to hang on their rented trunks. They have full sitting, picking, picnicking and climbing rights, but are spared all the tiresome chores of spraying, propping and pruning. Moreover, as a number of young Bay Area couples discovered during the local apple blossom festival last April, there can be more to sitting under an apple tree than discovering the law of gravity...