Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane door happy to be leaving a ship that was heading toward flak and more Germans. The jump was from such low altitude there was only a moment to look around in the moonlight after my chute opened. The fields looked so small that one couldn't miss a tree or hedge. Anyway I couldn...
...landed in a pear tree, a rather good shock absorber. But the trouble was I didn't filter on through to the ground; instead I dangled about three feet above ground unable to swing far enough to touch anything...
...Climax (Colo.) molybdenum mines in the winter of 1939-40. Many of Nate's painting crew could not stand the 12,000-ft. altitude and 35-below-zero temperature. Once, on treacherous Loveland Pass, Nate's car was blown off the road, and only a luckily placed tree saved him from a plunge into a chasm...
John Dewey Rides Again-One Christmas, Humorist Perelman decided to trim a Christmas tree. Advised Mademoiselle: "Dip tips of twisted cotton strips into India ink." Author Perelman went to work muttering: "Tip dips of twisted crotton sips. . . . Sip dips of cristed totton tips." Finally he surrendered to House & Garden's "inspiration of the season-an upside-down-evergreen tree swung from the ceiling...
...Home Folks. Dana (pop. 859) is a dozen miles from the banks of the Wabash, close to the Illinois border, 30 miles north of Terre Haute. Dana's red bricked Main Street is two blocks long. The rest of the town is mostly tree-shaded front-yards and frame houses. Dana's news-center is Mrs. Hazel Shepard's house. She is Dana's telephone operator, and the switchboard is in her parlor...