Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill, the hunter, who kept the camp supplied with meat, had been around a long time and a lot of places. Up in Alaska said Bill, "I saw big hairy elephants buried in the ice. Not only them, but ferns high as a tree and palms. That country was in the tropics at one time...
...Clann. When the phoenix of the ancients had lived upwards of 500 years, it retired to await death in the high branches of an oak or palm tree. From there a young phoenix would rise to carry the spent body of his parent to the altar of the sun. By last week Maud Gonne MacBride was 81, bedridden in a rambling old-world mansion outside of Dublin. The De Valera government, for which and against which she had fought so bitterly, had grown complacent and tired. For years Dev's party, the Fianna Fail, had known no effective opposition...
...Apple Tree. This Germany over which Russia and the West struggled was still, even in defeat, the key to world politics and economics. Every step in the development of the Marshall Plan made it increasingly clear that a stable Europe could not be organized without revived German production. The Communist grand strategy was plainly focused on eventual domination of Germany, which would almost certainly carry with it the domination of Europe. Thus the Germans were (theoretically) in an enviable position. Theory, however, was not filling many bellies in Germany last week...
...year's first snow fell into white robes for the Alps, grey slush for Munich streets. In Marburg an optimistic apple tree bloomed. In the whole land, the tree was perhaps the most optimistic note...
...Life. In Marietta, Ga., jail officials sicked a pack of hounds on the trail of a couple of escaped prisoners, eventually found the crestfallen hounds tied to a tree. In Baltimore, William Ashby was charged with stealing a Doberman pinscher watchdog...