Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...introduced modern authoritarianism to Brazil and the New World 15 years ago, was out of the Presidency. And it had all happened with remarkably little fuss. Said Rio de Janeiro's Diario de Noticias: "The abdication was as easy as rotten fruit dropping off a tree...
Finally someone remembered that there was state business to transact. Calling the Council together for an open-air session, Horace Hildreth had a hunting knife at his hip. To call the meeting to order he rapped on a tree stump with...
...precision of the Negro piano players in the Newark saloons. I resolved that I would quite definitely have to become a 'modern' artist. It took an awful long time. I soon learned to think of color more or less objectively so that I could paint a green tree red without batting an eye. Purple or green faces didn't bother me at all, and I even learned to sew buttons and glue excelsior on the canvas without feeling any sense of guilt...
Home Front. In Tipton, Okla., Jess Grubb, home from the wars, spotted a man in a tree near his house, grabbed his gun from force of habit, captured an es caped German prisoner...
Progressive Education. In Raritan Township, N.J., the board of education ruled that, since smoking had become a generally accepted practice, the faculty of Oak Tree School might smoke between classes, in the boiler room...