Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possesses two capital cities-Luangprabang for the royal family. Vientiane for the civil government-Laos has no railroad. Except for jungle paths, navigable rivers like the 1,200-mile Mekong, and barely 500 miles of all-weather road, all travel is by plane from rutted airstrips surrounded by tree-clad hills and swamps...
...secret: a series of steel-and-plastic "tree units," which look like beach umbrellas with canopies curving upward instead of down. Bolted together, they form ceilings and roof; supporting pipe columns carry the load. By simply adding or subtracting tree units, the school can be expanded as the community's needs change -or moved to a new site...
...pain, the huge beast charged its keeper, who daringly managed to catch it. chain the injured animal to a lamppost. The crowd closed in, jeering and taunting. Someone tried to shorten its chain, instead freed the maddened elephant, which this time charged the tormenting crowd, stomping with legs like tree trunks, flailing, smashing. A woman and child fell under its feet. The fleeing mob trampled eleven more people to death and injured 316 before the elephant was brought down by police bullets, crushing a car as he died...
Decoy. In Las Villas, Morgan urged the Dominicans on with a radio transmitter they had given him. "Our troops are advancing," he said, "but we cannot do it all. Send the Dominican legion!" One night, while Castro sat in the dark under a nearby mango tree to watch, a Dominican C46 put down at a Las Villas strip. As his men yelled "Death to Castro!" Morgan conferred at length with a man in priest's garb and five civilians. Morgan's men unloaded 13 bazookas and 40 cases of ammunition from the plane...
...sittin' underneath a tree...