Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classic. Excerpts : "When convenience suits, I ask that the plain canister-nothing fancy there, please-containing my ashes shall be taken to Paducah, and that at the proper planting season a hole shall be dug in our family lot or elsewhere at Oak Grove and a dogwood tree planted there and the ashes strewn in the hole to fertilize the tree roots. Should the tree live, that will be monument enough...
Derived from pine-tree sap, the powder is a cheap (less than $5,000 per mile of 40-ft. road), quick road-builder. It works something like sizing in coated paper; a mixture of about 1% of Stabinol in ordinary soil prevents water from penetrating in sufficient quantity to soften it. A resin-stabilized road stays so dry that even when it is covered with a layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work...
...years before the war, Rabaul (pop. 8,000) dozed comfortably in the Pacific sun, its chief activities coconut culture and administration of the Australian-mandated Territory of New Guinea. Planters' bungalows stood among green lawns and lush gardens. Tree-shaded avenues curved past government buildings, warehouses, hotels, churches, the New South Wales Bank, the racecourse...
...sergeant, hmmm? Do you have trouble being recognized at night? Do your men ignore you in the dark, huh, Sarge? See Joe Quartermaster and get your neon sergeant stripes. There's a pushbutton attachment. The slightest pressure and presto, your stripes light up like a Christmas tree...
...prayers ended. A lonelier Mohandas Gandhi squatted under a tamarind tree, watched the consuming flames, and wept...