Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solicitous election official hastened forward with advice. The lever clanked again, caught correctly this time. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 62, self-styled tree grower of New York State, voter No. 251 of Hyde Park village, had exercised his right as a U.S. citizen...
...Trumans were plain people of Scotch, Irish and Dutch stock. (Harry said: "We're a little of everything. If you shook the family tree anything might fall...
...Tree. Joe traveled 150,000 miles, played in jampacked halls, hospitals, gun emplacements, rainy ditches, jungle outposts. Once he climbed Canton Island's sole palm tree to entertain the solitary G.I. on lookout duty. Sometimes Comedian Brown would mutter prayers: "Listen, God, this is your...
...next batch was duly snubbed, poor fellows, and although they were well-behaved we refused to thaw. The third batch was a fine example of military efficiency and good behavior, and they soon won our friendship. Their lorries, equipment, uniforms were spotless; they nailed tins to every post and tree for the rubbish, dug pits to burn it, swept the roads to keep them neat, were courteous and never rowdy or rude...
Twenty Cigars. "[Freud's] office consisted of a dark little anteroom and three chambers. . . . Each room had but one window opening onto a courtyard in the middle of which stood a tall and beautiful tree." The man who placed so much importance on erotic drives that he was widely regarded as monstrous was "der Papa" to six adoring children-"when one of the children had been absent for some time and was met by another, the first word from the newcomer was: 'Father now drinks his tea from the green cup instead of from the blue...