Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horribly thirsty in the morning. Eight feet away, just beyond a little willow tree, a three-foot creek purled and gurgled. Desperately he began rolling his head, eating tufts of grass which grew within reach. That afternoon he heard a hammer banging near by; he knew someone was mending the fence his car had shattered. He screamed, hammered on the fender with his free hand. There was no answer...
...Pitt was born & bred a mountain man. By the time he was knee-high to a fox pup, he knew nearly all there was to know about handling an ax and a rifle. He grew up long-legged and straight as a tulip tree, standing 6 feet 3 in his bare feet. He had a vast nose, a scraggly beard and a wild look in his eyes...
...plumpest literary plum of World War II-the memoirs of Winston Churchill-fell this week to LIFE and the New York Times. It was prize fruit of massive size (projected as five volumes, 1,000,000 words), and many a newspaper, syndicate and magazine broker had hopefully shaken the tree. The price for the U.S. serial rights Churchill kept to himself, but gossips had been guessing for more than a year that his remembrances would sell for a record $1,000,000 or more...
...Byzantium (which Constantine I had renamed Constantinople) simply for the fun of planning new and better ones'. Theophilus liked such playthings as a pair of life-size golden lions, which crouched before his throne and roared, lashing their tails, on state occasions. He also had a golden tree, sheltering a host of gold birds which warbled and flapped their wings...
Author Miller does not apply the simple Biblical test for such prophets: "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit...