Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berchtesgaden one prewar afternoon, Austria's timid Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg sat under a tree, waiting to be browbeaten. "Nearby Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel peacefully sunned himself on the porch. Last week Keitel told what happened next. Hitler appeared in the doorway, screaming: "Keitel, come here!" Schuschnigg watched as Germany's tall, arrogant Chief of the Supreme High Command strode into the house...
Zero hour had struck. British tanks led the charge, Tommies swept in behind them. Their objective: Berlin's lavish, tree-shaded Tiergarten, center of the city's morbidly flourishing black market...
...eastern seaboard. When it was over, Texas-born Chester Nimitz flew back to the Lone Star State, where every man, woman and child knew all about him and felt he had contributed mightily to the greater glory of the greatest warrior race in history. In Austin, Christmas tree lights were strung up over the streets and in Dallas huge crowds yipped and whooped happily...
...sunny morning, at a North Carolina crossroads marked by a ruined chapel on a hill, a traveler climbed wearily from his horse. There, in the shade of a big poplar tree, William Richardson Davie, the future governor of the state, took a long, cool draught from the jug beside him, and gazed about. "Here," he said to himself, "we will put our new university...
Casting for the production of Moliere's "Le Misanthrope" by the Harvard Dramatic Club will begin this afternoon at 4 o'clock at Big Tree, Charles Mansfield '47, president, announced last night...