Word: tree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...token of thanksgiving, Mrs. Gandhi, who had eaten practically nothing during the Mahatma's fast, planted a mango tree in the garden...
...Communists had read him out of the party, "one thing was left for me: to prove that my theory would be accepted in an industrial nation where capitalists rule. ... I had to come as a spy, in disguise. Sometimes in times of war a man disguises himself as a tree. My paintings in this country have become increasingly and gradually clearer.'' Speaking in French he said, "Art is like ham-it nourishes people." The interpreter translated jambon as "food." The audience shouted "Ham!" and Rivera nodded. He concluded, "Because there is a logic of history, the RCA Building...
...surprised when he won the appointment. At the Naval Academy he played baseball, football. Graduated in 1895, he was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet. During the Philippine insurrection he distinguished himself by going ashore in the dead of night, wading through a swamp and making a sketch from a tree of an enemy camp. After Manila he spent some time in Central America "watching revolutions. ' During the War he trained officers at Annapolis. Admiral Standley has had plenty of experience for his new job in handling for two years the Navy's new instruments, its Treaty Cruisers...
...Italy Valley. N. Y., natural gas seeped into hollows in the 130-ft. trunk of what was said to be the State's largest elm tree, was ignited by a grass fire, exploded, destroyed the tree, tossed up sparks that burned three barns, two roofs...
...which my father was born . . . where I whispered up the chimney flue to Santa Claus, roasted apples in the ashes with my brother, started my first novel at the age of six, saw pumpkin faces at the window on Halloween, watched the marshes freeze over, the crab-apple tree blossom, the hay being hurriedly brought to shelter ahead of the storm and the wind blowing the last brown leaves about the yard...