Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White House mail piled higher & higher. The larder bulged with Christmas gifts of plum pudding, wild turkey, venison, duck, pheasant and guinea hen. Tinseled wreaths filled the White House windows with color. Outside, the national Christmas tree towered over the frozen south lawn...
Despite all this, and more holiday wonders to come, Bess Truman and daughter Mary Margaret had already left Washington for home in Independence, Mo. Harry Truman, too, would fly there on the morning of the 25th, after lighting the tree and addressing the nation by radio on Christmas Eve. In Independence, he would spend most of his first Presidential Christmas as he has done for decades-eating three big dinners: one each with his 93-year-old mother, his mother-in-law, Mrs. David W. Wallace, 83; and his aunt, Mrs. Margaret Truman Noland, 96. But the President would...
...have lived here for many years, and, at one time, owned considerable landed property, and very often I would take my dogs out hunting mongooses in the pastures. The mongoose would always climb trees to get away from the dogs, if he could get to a tree in time...
...TIME said that rats "learned to live in the trees, where mongooses cannot climb." TIME'S Science writer says that he, like the mongoose, can climb trees* but can't catch tree-climbing rats...
...Southerner, is now being cast by Warner as a no-good city slicker. He makes as much sense as he can of his moronic lines, but the plot machinery jams frequently. Clearly too fast for anyone in the picture, Zachary eventually hastens his own end by tripping over a tree root and pitching over a cliff...