Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bromfield as the sensational prophet last summer was hewing at the right tree, while Jones, the optimist, had lost sight of the forest. To eat well, the U.S. was drawing heavily on its food reserves carried over from years of abundance and underconsumption. But the stockpile of grains, the basic food, is getting dangerously small. And at week's end Louis Bromfield, prophet of famine, stubbornly set his alarm clock ahead, this time for April...
Akers chopped through a bamboo thicket, came face to face with a bull elephant, trunk raised, tusks outthrust. The beast charged, hooking viciously with a tusk, knocked the pilot beneath a bush. Stunned and suffering from a deep wound, Akers eventually regained consciousness. That night he slept under a tree. Late the next morning he dragged himself to safety, told his strange story...
...forthright, uninhibited graphic touch as clear and gay as sunlight. Typical was General Washington, decorative, naive, fantastic. General and horse were suspended in air, unpropped by Delaware ice cakes or the neoclassic columns of Mount Vernon. The plume on the General's tricorne hat looked like a Christmas tree. Though utterly alone, the Father of His Country drew rein and fired his pistol...
Russell is infectiously cheerful. He does not use a dog or cane. "On a quiet day," explains Coach Eddie O'Donnell, "Bob can hear a tree." He likes to fish and plays poker for profit with Braille cards. Some weekends he hitchhikes from New Haven to Manhattan...
Artist Doughty's porcelain birds are as meticulously realistic as Audubon's. But she does not depend on him for her avian observations. For that purpose she had a big wire cage constructed around an old apple tree, filled it with birds imported from the U.S. There Artist Doughty spends months studying her birds, sketching poses, shaping preliminary models. Then, in a single intense day of disciplined haste, a final image is made. Because porcelain products shrink to one-third model-size when fired in the kiln (the temperature goes as high as 1,200° F.), they...