Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still believe that a large majority of my compatriots love Canada as it is, constitutionally and otherwise, and do not want any change in their allegiance. . . . Their only wrongdoing is that they care too little about those who . . . are sabotaging our free institutions. The worms are gnawing at the tree of liberty...
...best-known, best-liked of U.S. airborne officers: Brigadier General Don Forrester Pratt, assistant commander of the 101st Airborne Division. He had led his detachment to a landing on the extreme right of the Allied line, northwest of Carentan. He died when his command glider crashed into a tree...
Illinois' tousled Representative Everett M. Dirksen, who is really campaigning for second place, wound up his tour at Rockford, Ill. And Washington newsmen heard that Lieut. Commander Harold E. Stassen, talking to a friend under a palm tree in the South Pacific, had said he would not stop presentation of his name to the convention...
...officer ordered the soldier who had captured us to escort us toward the center of the town. With raised hands we marched along the main street. The sun shone and bullets whistled between the bombed buildings; the Partisans were gathering on the surrounding hills. We were led into the tree-shaded backyard of the two-story Partisan administration building where some 20 old men, women and children had already been herded. Two German officers were standing in the far corner...
Near the little woodland lake of Nemi. 20 miles from a Rome as yet unborn. Rome's Father Aeneas, at the Sibyl's bidding, plucked a branch from a tree in the Sacred Grove before he essayed his perilous journey into the world of the dead. In time Nemi's Sacred Grove withered, ultimately to be immortalized in Sir James Frazer's memorable journey through the world of dead religions - The Golden Bough. Meanwhile Rome, too, was born, flowered and withered into decay. One early expression of Rome's decay whom today's dictators...