Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breaks. In Santa Fe, the parents of Grace Delgado, who had fallen out of a tree and broken her arm, took her to the hospital, returned, found that her brother had broken his arm wrestling...
...small town of Threerivers, Calif., the largest piece of wood carving in the U.S.* has been under way since last autumn. Dark-haired, muscular Sculptor Carroll Barnes has been chopping away at a 22-ton hunk of Sequoia gigantea (world's largest tree), gradually carving it into a gigantic statue of the lumberman's legendary hero, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, Babe. Last week, depressed by poor returns from his first one-man show in San Francisco, Barnes had a mind to hang a "war casualty" sign on Paul and get a job driving a tractor...
...camp sites are still unfinished. The first 300 officer-pupils had their first class under a tree last May. Few enlisted men, except those needed to run demonstration equipment, will come until Aug. 15, when the camp will be ready...
Where, Then? In Manhattan, a cop in a park heard snoring, found Ahmed Hassen asleep in a tree, hauled him off to court. Hassen told the judge that he slept in trees because sleeping on benches was forbidden...
...dull blue, sometimes tinged with green. (Mr. Wilson first saw green and blue men on a Colombia farm after a "night out".) Neither painful nor fatal, pinta is serious because it disfigures, is very infectious. It can be checked with antiseptic drugs, especially chrysarobin, powder obtained from a tropical tree, which is an ancient remedy of Indian herb doctors. But only tattooing can restore the blotches to their original color...