Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artist and intellectual, Hilda now shuns Ciro's bar and others of the gayer spots. Except for a lingering lunch at the quiet Ambassadeurs, she sticks to her comfortable apartment in tree-graced Calle Londres. The deep blue walls assuage her spirit, set off her shining blonde hair...
Shotgun. Harrison watched part of the mob lead quivering Roger Malcolm and George Dorsey down a sandy track toward an oak tree. The Negro wives left behind in the car began to shriek. Harrison heard one of them call out the name of one of the mob, but swore he couldn't remember what...
...Harrison silently looked on as the men dragged the struggling women over to the oak tree and shoved them beside the bound figures of their husbands. Then the mob fired three pointblank volleys into their prisoners...
...recalled the gilded '20s, northern France's No. 1 beach resort held its first summer opening in six years. The 10,000-odd visitors, including some 2,000 Britons and a scattering of Americans, saw the-Normandy coast playground as they had seen it on picture postcards-tree-shaded streets, restful, gaily decorated buildings and a placid, dull-green...
...marine, stationed in the Aleutians, and the call of the wild got him. Walking his post without even a tree for company, he thought it might be nice to settle down in Alaska after the war and mine platinum. Mining, he knew, was a science. There were colleges that could teach him-but he had enlisted after only a year and a half of high school...