Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell U.S. beginners how to ski. Its basis, as with all controlled skiing, is the fundamental snow-plow (knees bent, body tilted forward, ski tips pointed inward like an inverted V). In about five weeks, the average student can learn to ride downhill without wrapping himself around a tree...
...same idea, and may succeed in shortening our grouse season by two weeks, next legislature. . . . We could have got our limit many times over. Hurricane blowdown full of them. So thick that cats, owls, fox, etc., are getting many more than hunters. We've seen eight in one tree this season, never went out a day without flushing at least 20 in short time. No apples this year, consequently all birds in thick woods, feeding on thornapples, hornbeam buds, and ground seeds...
...White House looked like Christmas. Mail piled up; huge wreaths splashed greenery from the windows; the great rooms sparkled with holly, poinsettia and mistletoe. On the south lawn, the towering national Christmas tree winked merrily to passersby. But for all its holly, the White House was not filled with the Christmas spirit...
...lepers, who are still, in effect, belled over all the earth, Christmas 1946 had special meaning. At the only U.S. leprosarium, in Carville, La., the 378 patients (whites, Negroes, Orientals) raised their first community Christmas tree. Major Hans G. Hornbostel, whose wife entered six months ago, played Santa Claus. In Washington, leprologists, gathered at a special conference, made the celebration official. They were ready to announce the first real hope of a leprosy cure...
...white tissue paper (with here & there a spangle), this playlet uses none of the stunting with language by which E. E. Cummings is known as the most wayward-as well as the freshest-of U.S. lyricists. But it definitely belongs on the grown-up side of the Christmas tree...