Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves going, they practice the art of balancing on a forty-foot combination of zigzag rails. Next, as if they hadn't had enough they go back up into the air over a seven foot wall, clambering over it in a manner similar to the way Tarzan swings from tree to tree, with the aid of ropes. The most interesting part of the Obstacle Course is known as the Wire Maze. This is a substitute for the famous tire series that is used in football to develop agility and coordination of mind and muscle. The men who survive that obstacle...
...leisurely picture chronicles small but curiously moving adventures: Homer's delivery of a War Department message to a dead soldier's mother; Ulysses' & friends' raid on a forbidden apricot tree; the pursuit of Tom Spangler by a rich young pretty (Marsha Hunt); Bess and her girl friend picking up three lonely soldiers; Marcus playing hymns on his concertina in a troop train. The sum total of these screen adventures never quite attains the soaring enthusiasm of Saroyan's novel, and some of the preaching is hard to take. Yet at its best The Human Comedy...
Under the towering, mossy oaks of Bayou du Large, La. they finally got around to celebrating Christmas, last Sunday. A tinseled tree glittered in the little white chapel of St. Andrew's Episcopal Mission. Children solemnly posed in a tableau of the Nativity. The young Rev. Clarence R. Haden Jr., rector of St. Matthew's Church in nearby Houma, preached a Yuletide sermon to some 100 people...
...wanted after the war. A costermonger named Amy said it best. She wanted Lambeth Walk restored, and she had no desire to give up her fruit & "veg" business. She also wanted it understood that from now on her children and grandchildren were to have something more "on the Christmas tree [than] old clothes and boots and that sort of thing...
Sometimes the Japs would truss a native to a tree. The Japs pulled off his trousers and gave him enough scope to walk around, but after three days or so without food or water he would collapse, choking himself to death in a noose looped around his neck...