Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They watched with interest as the uneasy inspection party tramped up the sandy hills of the tree-shaded slope where their camp is laid out, in the Choccolocco Mountains. When the visitors turned into a barracks there was a scramble within, a roared Achtung. A noncommissioned officer swung his leg, clicked his heels and flung his arm up in the Nazi salute (which the U.S. conducting officer acknowledged, American-style). Beside their cots blue-shirted prisoners stood stony-faced, rigidly at attention...
...scientist. She had Danish and English grandparents, grown brothers and sisters. Her family was poor, "though we still kept four domestics." They lived in a flat on one of the Lines of the Vassily Island in St. Petersburg. (The Lines were laid out as canals, but built into wide, tree-shaded boulevards.) Her parents were separated; her father taught at the fashionable Xenia, school for daughters of the nobility...
Eight Piper Cubs flew across German lines on Mt. Ceracoli. Over the target their pilots solemnly pushed out a few five-gallon tins of gasoline, circled to see what would happen. As they had reckoned, nothing much did. An enemy-held tree burst into brief flame, a pillar of smoke soared all of three feet into the air. The armada wheeled, made for home at 70 miles an hour, while bored Germans took desultory pot shots at them...
...impact when we struck the ground was cushioned ... I knew we had hit a tree. ... I got the idea I was a dead man. . . . My eyes were closed for a few seconds. When I opened them I could see green vegetation...
...unknown artist drew a picture of a soldier in battle array and crusading posture with one arm flung up-his fingers had grown branches, his feet had taken root like a tree...