Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a wanderer was beyond appeal or succor. Typical was a scene in Berlin's once fashionable Dahlem, now part of the U.S. zone. A grey old man stood on a curb. Beside him a tattered cadaverous woman leaned apathetically against a shell-scarred tree. On the pavement before them lay a long bundle wrapped in a frayed black dress and held together by a string drawn around the ankles and neck of the corpse inside. The three were refugees from the East. They were thumbing a ride out of town to a spot where the dead could...
...little old house on East 20th Street looked the same-littered and neglected, with the shingles peeling off. A single dried apricot hung on the tree in the front yard. "Better than last year," Horn's father said. "Last year all of 'em dropped...
...seen in six long years. Thousands strolled in the bright streets, arm in arm, and singing. Auto parties cruised about to take in the sight. To six-year-old children, who had never seen the sight at all, the lights were like the illumination of a vast Christmas tree...
...stories are written in a jarring blend of phonetic dialect ("Shuddap, you bassars or I'll trun the lot of you out") and literary flourishes ("She saw in the bough of the child the tree of the man"). As explained by Brown, the accent contains "the ghosts of several dialects common to soldiers . . . [but] is certainly not Brooklynese...
...companions had gone through to spy out the Inca empire (and the side deal with Charles V to cut Pizarro's 13 companions out of most of the loot). Now, at 70, Don Francisco was weary of bloodshed and treachery. In his garden the first fig tree of New Castile had just borne fruit. When the enemies he had left alive conspired against him, he invited them to his palace for half a dozen figs and some friendly advice. The rebels answered the invitation by breaking into his house and cutting his throat...