Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joined some 2,000 kiddies in celebrating the Russian Christmas season. They howled and clapped for acrobats, singers and magicians, then met a bearded gentleman strongly resembling Santa Claus but introduced himself as Grandfather Frost. He led the children around a towering evergreen that looked exactly like a Christmas tree but, in the parlance of atheistic Communists, was disguised under the tinkly title of "New Year's tree...
...tall chap at the far end of the table stood up. "It was a pretty bad day when we went," he said. "They have seven nets with different colored bands for the birds they catch. We got just two the whole day long--a Junco and a Tree Sparrow. We saw another one with a colored band, but we couldn't tell what color...
When the curtain rises on Samuel Beckett's play it reveals a stage bare of everything but a few shapes vaguely suggestive of rocks and something that resembles a tree. Soon two hobos named Estragon and Vladimir come onstage, and the audience learns that they are waiting for someone called Godot to meet them there. The pair talk for a while, and than they are joined by two other characters, a cruel slave-driver and the slave whom he leads around on the end of a rope. After some more conversation, Pozzo, the master, and Lucky, the slave leave...
...planted a pine tree...
...leading figures : the Empress Wu, who rivals Britain's first Elizabeth for energy and cunning; the "Illustrious Sovereign" Hsuan-Tsung, scholar and educator, whose tragic love for the beauteous Yang Kuei Fei ended when the army, incensed at her extravagance, forced her to be hanged from a pear tree with a silken scarf...