Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long afterward, explorers picking their way through the jungle would come upon the gouged bodies of animals, eyes torn and bellies punctured. People hearing of these things assumed that the children from the cedar tree were vampires...
...many quests for souls in the jungles of southern Venezuela, Monsignor de Ferrari paused one day beneath a giant cedar tree. Looking up into the branches, he saw two marvelous beings. Enticed down, they turned out to be children of not more than twelve or thirteen...
They were unusual children: their arms reached to their ankles, their heads were in the shape of pears. Their savage mouths gave even the good Monsignor pause. In their hands, as weapons, they carried sharp, long thorns of the támara tree. They spoke no recognizable language. But they could speak in pantomime, and De Ferrari could understand them...
...shaking the tree would help, long-overripe Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain was surely due to fall with the frosts...
...plum-plump dictator approached his ninth anniversary as Chief of the Spanish State, the tree was shaken vigorously at a typically spectacular rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There Russian anger and British impatience with the lingering Fascist regime were semi-officially proclaimed. Cried Nikolai Novikov, Soviet charge d'affaires in the U.S.: "The peoples of the Soviet Union hope that General Franco, this hireling of Hitler and Mussolini, will receive what is coming to him and his regime of Fascist dictatorship will be abolished...