Word: tamarisk
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...Host Paul Hoffman, because it is more secluded, and has a large, enclosed patio where Mamie and her mother could sunbathe in privacy.) On his first vacation day Ike was up early, worked an hour at his desk after break fast, then played 18 holes of golf at the Tamarisk Club with Hoffman, Helms, and Tamarisk's pro, famed Ben Hogan. (In his haste to get started, Ike put on his pullover sweater inside...
...Chesterfield cigarettes (which he chain-smokes on the golf course but seldom smokes off it). He owns a couple of oil wells, a one-sixth interest in the new $2,000,000 ranch-type Western Hills Hotel near Fort Worth, and next winter he will run the posh new Tamarisk Country Club at Palm Springs, Calif., where he is building a home overlooking the third tee. Other golfers find themselves dreaming of the day Hogan will find a nice green pasture for himself. It seems to be their only hope of getting a real shot...
Bivouac. At dusk the columns draw close to the shelter of a mountainside and scraggly clumps of paloverde and green-silver, dusty-needled tamarisk trees. Every vehicle halts a good distance from every other: there are no clusters of machines to make targets for surprise air attacks...
...bellyaches and bellyaching, make half the Kaye-Smith children's fun. Their simple growing love for the Sussex countryside and country people makes up the other half. Wherever they may come to live, their thoughts will dwell on Sussex, like Authoress Kaye-Smith's books: Sussex Gorse, Tamarisk Town, Green Apple Harvest, Joanna Godden, The End of the House of Alard, The Village Doctor, Shepherds in Sackcloth, Susan Spray. Even should Selina come to marrying a Sussex clergyman like Miss Kaye-Smith's husband, Rev. Theodore Penrose Fry, she would not follow him to London. She would...
...Biblical tamarisk manna is not to be confused with the manna of the manna ash tree (Fraxinns ornus) cultivated commercially on the frassinetti (plantations) around Palermo, Sicily. The manna ash are the trees visitors in Palermo in early summer see blooming with clusters of whitest flowers...