Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slater Martin of St. Louis and aging (31) Dick McGuire of Detroit whistled the ball down the floor on the furious fast breaks that kept their team in the ball game. Basketball's Nijinsky, Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics, still slick and sly at the tree-ripened age of 29, broke the game wide open for the East in the last five minutes when he ran up seven straight points...
...When Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke Island colony mysteriously disappeared some time between 1587 and 1590, the message CROATOAN was found carved on a tree. The"lost colony," some experts believe, joined the Croatan Indians. Among them: Virginia Dare...
...Charles St. Actors Company has given The Grass Harp a rather beautiful, lyrical production. The small stage, faced by the audience at both ends, seems exactly the thing for conveying the intimate lonliness of four characters who retreat into a treehouse; Esther Small's sets--especially the massive tree, but also the not-quite-perfectly-shuttered living room--provide extraordinarily fitting play areas and suggest even a forest without seeming cramped. Resourceful lighting--making use of darkness, candles, and even flashlights also takes full creative advantage of the possibilities of a small theater. Between the sets and the lighting...
...home (with sister, maid, and a stray retired judge), away from the other sister, the fierce faded sister, who wanted to make a big business out of the meek one's only possession: a secret--a recipe for an effective medicine, made from herbs. The fugitives flee to a tree house; in a few speeches about themselves they overcome some of their loneliness and, at the end, even though they have to return home, their way of life scores a victory...
Years went by. Having established a slot or two-or more-on his family tree, the man then arranged with Chinese brokers in such places as Hong Kong to sell his slots to willing Chinese for prices ranging from $2,500 apiece to $6,000. The broker found on his lists a Chinese whose age approximated that of a registered son, sent him on to the U.S. Once there, the newcomer often became virtually an indentured servant until he paid for his slot, frequently was harassed by extortionists and informers who threatened to expose his illegal entry unless he paid...