Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later he teamed with Idaho's Senator Glen Taylor against Maryland's Millard Tydings and Arkansas' J. William Fulbright at pitching horseshoes. The Missouri southpaw's side lost, 20-to-21. A seaplane brought official papers for the President. He sat under a poplar tree, read them, signed some. Then he went inside. There was a poker game in full blast and three tables of continuous bridge...
...Boston, a blind war veteran, guided by a paralyzed companion, drove a rented automobile three miles through heavy traffic before crashing into a tree...
...always calm, dignified and assured. He wanted no money. Unlike doctors, he recited no baffling mumbo jumbo, but merely looked at his visitors' left hands to see what was the matter with them. "You look at a leaf to tell what's wrong with a tree," he explained gravely. "I look at your hand." The visitors began to feel better already...
Princess Elizabeth, niece of the Duke of Windsor whose equestrian mishaps were stock gag fodder in the '20s, came a cropper herself on the Balmoral Castle grounds in Scotland, got some nasty leg bruises when her horse threw her against a tree...
Soldiers who had cheered Manhattan's towers when their ships docked now strained their eyes for the half-forgotten tree or turn of road which would mean the real end of their long journey home. War workers bound back to farms and small towns, millions who had been city-bound by gasoline rationing looked out again at the U.S. scene they best remembered-a two-lane highway seen through the windshield of a four-door sedan...