Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had been made by a single bullet. Dozens of eyes peering through curtained windows saw the Russian walk unsteadily up the steps and enter Frau Lehrte's house. Soon he walked down the steps and into a nearby orchard, where he leaned wearily against an apple tree: the widow Lehrte was not home, and the Russian intended to wait for her return...
...finally decided to inform the authorities of the goings-on at Frau Lehrte's). The Russian jerked himself erect. Forgetting his motorcycle, he walked off in the direction of the Soviet zone. But when he saw a second U.S. jeep pull up, he ducked behind a tree, raised his rifle and fired four quick shots. German and U.S. police flung themselves behind the parked cars; the Russian slipped away. A German policeman, wounded in the leg, lay on his back before Frau Lehrte's house. Germans clustered around him and stared at the Russian's abandoned motorcycle...
...Here he comes again!" Children who had been playing down the street raised the cry. "Here he comes again!" The Russian lieutenant reappeared. He saw the Americans gathered near his motorcycle, and slipped back out of sight. One block away, in a tree-lined sidestreet, Morrow caught up with him. The lieutenant was now accompanied by a Russian private, whose Tommy gun he carried. Morrow said (in Polish, which the Russian understood): "I am unarmed. I want to find out what's happening here...
...home to Philadelphia." Starlet Lila Leeds was being sued for return of a $1,000 engagement ring by an ex-fiance who had been trying, without success, to get either the ring or Lila. At week's end Mitchum's attorney, Jerry Giesler, drove into a tree, suffered broken ribs and "profound shock." Meanwhile, Variety noted that the latest Mitchum movie, RKO's Rachel and the Stranger, was No. 1 at the nation's box offices...
...three days, Boston and New York sportswriters have been flopping by the basket-load from the sour apple tree where they hung and grimaced at Harvard football during its years of mediocrity. Reporters and columnists can't seem to spout their stream of adjectives Valpeywards fast enough, a stream that has heretofore saved solely for blessing B. C. and Company...