Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crown Prince, wearing a schoolboy blue serge uniform of tunic, short pants, and cap with brass cherry blossom, had just finished his elementary schooling, and celebrated by planting an oak tree on the grounds of the Peers' School. In a school-house built for his benefit next to the Palace grounds-to spare the prince a "dangerous" trip down the street-he had learned his lessons by rote and recited them, singsong fashion, with other young male aristocrats. He had also studied English with a British tutor, long resident in Japan, whose future under an American matriarchy remained...
Bigger Fields, Greener Lands? Bill Hunt spent little time waiting around for Government business. If no plums came his way, he shook the tree, and none too gently. Shaking brought down these prizes...
Died. Martin L. Davey, 61. who left a million-dollar tree-surgery business to become Democratic Governor of Ohio (1935-39) because "I get a thrill out of it"; of coronary thrombosis; in Kent. Ohio. His administration, marked by protracted wranglings with New Dealers over pension politics, ended in his own whopping defeat by Republican John Bricker...
...chief social function was that of hunter, but Raven is not a success at the job. He prefers to lie under a tree and scratch. It is Raven's bad luck to live in a woman's world, run by women for women. Grandmother screams, "Get up," kicks him on the side of the skull. Grandmother also cooks the food, plants the crops. Her daughters (Raven's sisters) bear offspring after exposure to the moon and the rain, seldom allow Raven to share their...
They opened the jail. "Hit's a hell of a poor time to free us now," one prisoner panted to another, as they sprinted for the shelter of a big tree on the courthouse square...