Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laugh out of the gony bird for a while. Then he is a plain nuisance. Frigate birds are scoundrels who make a living by snatching food out of other birds' beaks. The sooty tern lays its eggs on the ends of broken limbs of the breadfruit tree. On one island there is a lone rooster. His morning crowing to high heaven wakes up the whole island-that is how big this atoll is. He makes the farm boys homesick...
...compass into the red dot marked CAMP WESTHOFEN and drew three concentric circles." Somewhere between the red dot and the second circle the fugitives must be. From this circumference bloodhounds padded out into the foggy evening, the camp sirens screamed incessantly, police began the precise combing of every tree and tussock...
...Seventh Tree. The prisoners watched the recaptured men strapped to six trees. But the seventh tree still stood empty...
...seventh tree was for George Heisler. Hiding in a swamp, Heisler planned his moves with the shrewdness of an experienced political prisoner. Soon he would have to get out of the bog and seek help from man. To whom should he go-to his estranged wife, to his former mistress, to his best friend of pre-prison days, to his former political friends...
Decline & Fall. Until this year, Ol' Gene never had much trouble getting reelected. His wild political rallies, with free fish fries and watermelon, panicked Georgia's rural voters. His traveling stooges, including the famed Tree-Climbing Haggards, yipped encouragement to his glowering, grammar-proof oratory. He showed his red galluses and his love for pore folks. The busy Palace Guard, working less spectacularly, machine-tooled many another vote. Ol' Gene rode high...