Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bodies lay about a narrow gully in family groups. One blanket covered a father, two small children, a grandfather and grandmother, all strangled by cloth ropes. The mother, a woman of about 35, had tied one end of the rope to a tree, the other end around her neck, leaned forward to die. Reported Corporal Alexander Roberts...
King George VI added color and dash to a tree-planting ceremony at Windsor by appearing in a new Scottish border tweed suit (three-inch redline squares against a light brown background) which cost him some 26 of his annual allotment of 48 clothing coupons. A West End tailor, moodily studying the cloth and cut, predicted that His Majesty's new ensemble would be a fashion setter...
...Woodward-Doering process is not a synthesis. It is a method of extracting quinidine (hitherto derived chiefly from a variety of the cinchona tree, growing only in Java) from quinine itself. Since widely used atabrine has largely displaced quinine in the treatment of malaria, part of the stockpile of quinine can thus be turned to good use by converting it to the scarcer drug...
Even in his old age, friends & foes claimed that Lloyd George could still "talk a bird out of a tree." Last summer he returned to the 400-year-old farmhouse of his boyhood for his "last days." He finally accepted an earldom from a grateful government (TIME, Jan. 8). Of him Winston Churchill said: "There is no history like his in living memory. . . . Indeed, history will have to return her pages back to Chatham to find his parallel...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire; TIME...