Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Editor Margaret D. Miller, daughter of a Lutheran missionary): "The women went to fish in a stream and the elephants came after them. They chased them the whole day long . . . We who went to meet the women were five. The elephants chased us too. We had to climb a tree. One man, whose name was Peiwala, took off his shoes and left them under the tree. The elephants took the shoes and spoiled them...
...boxes were marked with party symbols-a rooster for the Convention Peoples Party of Kwame Nkrumah, 47, for four years the self-governing colony's Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953); a cocoa tree for the National Liberation Movement, meant to dramatize charges of graft in the Nkrumah government's Cocoa Marketing Board. "What you need is an honest government," cried the leader of the N.L.M., "one whose hand is not always in the public pocket...
...Manhattan last week the Metropolitan Museum proudly unveiled a brand-new, glittering gold-wire construction that at first glance looked like a jumbo-sized Christmas-tree decoration from Cartiers...
Under bright, balmy skies the holiday-minded crowds gathered early along the broad Avenida San Martin. They packed the balconies of apartment houses, perched on tree branches and jammed the temporary bleachers. Then President Pedro Aramburu, wearing his blue-and-white sash of office, arrived from the National Cathedral, climbed the steps of the reviewing stand, saluted during the national anthem, and the parade began...
Timber Topper. In Jacksonville, figuring it was only a matter of time before a large, diseased magnolia tree in his yard would fall on the house, Walter Rivers hired a crane to uproot it, watched mutely as the crane slipped, sent the tree crashing through his roof...