Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Achuni was taken for his most recent afternoon promenade, he committed a definite breach of etiquette by mistaking a silken limb for a tree branch and starting to make the ascent. Fortunately a disaster was averted by quick thinking on the part of a passer-by who plucked the animal from his shapely "tree" and set him to earth again...
...Harvard Dramatic Club, homeless since the Grant Study took over its quarters at 13 Holyoke St. three years ago, is constructing a clubhouse in the rear part of the original building, which was once the Big Tree swimming pool...
...clear to everybody that Bertie was "backward, frivolous, vain." They tried sending him to Edinburgh and Oxford, to Canada, to the U.S. He planted a chestnut tree at George Washington's grave, and on one occasion, according to rumor, eluded his guardians "and indulged his abounding manhood in the bagnios of New York...
Approaching the field he was suddenly blinded by a burst of stinging smoke, burned by red flames. The ship was out of control and coming down fast when he went over the side, landed precariously in a tree...
...five Japanese bombers. Woods dived, landed the plane on a tiny field at Suifu, taxied his ship to the edge of some woods, evacuated his passengers. The Japanese planes followed, dropped 200 bombs. One of the bombs splintered the DC-3's right wing like a lightning-struck tree branch...