Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost shouted himself out of voice. The hourly swabbings of his throat only helped make his temper raw. At a midnight stop at Ogden, Utah, he interrupted his blistering attack on Congress to scold and silence a group of noisy boys who had climbed a nearby tree. In San Francisco and Oakland he was bitterly disappointed by unenthusiastic audiences and by the absence of crowds along the sidewalks. In Oakland he took it out on cameramen who popped their flashes at him. The camera corps, which rates him as the most obliging and patient of Presidents, was astonished...
Berliners last week found a strange symbol of their city and of Europe. In Prinz Handjery Strasse stands a chestnut tree. Six weeks ago, a U.S. plane flying in Operation Vittles crashed against it, killing two U.S. flyers. The flames of the crash scorched one side of the tree, whose branches now hang black and dead, while they warmed the other side into defiant, unseasonable bloom. Last week beneath the tree were small bunches of asters in a cracked, cheap drinking glass, and forget-me-nots in an empty grapefruit...
...chestnut tree spoke to Berlin of courage and danger, which are never far apart; in other words, of peace...
...wear it tomorrow in my semifinal match." Stranahan had already muffed three easy putts, let it bother him so much that he began bending his tee shots. On the 13th hole, he hooked into deep rough, was in more rough with his second shot, struck a tree with his third, and conceded hole and match after his fourth barely reached the green. Billows' margin: an overwhelming...
Once Upon a Time. In Belton, Mont., a bear entered Jean Sullivan's house and 1) slept in his bed, 2) pulled out his dresser drawers, 3) raided the pantry, 4) carried out the bedding, 5) hung the curtains on a tree...