Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samarkand is like Southern California. It has a self-preserving apricot that ripens, dries on the tree. Windfalls on the ground stay in good condition for a month, enabling one man to harvest 200 acres...
...Dewey's automobile reached Pawling Village, 105 miles from Albany, at 4 p.m., exactly on schedule. Pawling was ready, too. The wood-pillared front porch of the 58-year-old Dutcher Hotel was bunting-draped. In the tree-shaded park behind it-which looks like all U.S. village parks from Idaho to Georgia-1,000 people crowded behind the roped-off lanes. Men, coatless on the hot day, women in summer frocks and bare legs, young girls in pinafores and bobby socks, waited for a look at their famous neighbor, the man who owns the 486-acre Dapplemere place...
...grenade struck the head of the driver, went on to hit the officer beside him between the eyes, killing both men. The cycle skidded into a ditch, catapulting the third German headfirst to his death against a stone wall. The doughboy retrieved his grenade from a tree trunk and rammed it back on the rifle launcher; it was still good...
...walked 14 hours before they found help. Soon a bomber, with an Army doctor aboard, was on its way to the rocky ledge where the four injured men lay. The doctor first dropped a parachute load of supplies from the circling bomber, then jumped himself. He landed in a tree, fell 20 ft., but scrambled up unhurt. When the main rescue party arrived (by land) nearly four hours later, the patients had been fed, bandaged, drugged to ease their pain. They could not say enough in praise of their paradoctor...
...wonderful shot of a German train, moving toward dynamite and demolition: hidden in a soft-blown, shining vista of heavy summer leaves, it sprouts a smoothly advancing, dreamlike tree of smoke...