Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assistants, the colonel passed his time conducting vast experiments in genetics, buying up old lots of abandoned express packages on the chance that they might contain something interesting, filling his house with furniture that hung on chains from the ceiling, and-from a special chair suspended from a huge tree before a great, open-air fireplace-delivering daily the hell he promised. Mrs. Fabyan contented herself with the relatively quieter companionship of a free-roving chimpanzee and a small private zoo of bears, wolves and coyotes...
...with the puppy-dog look; Dorn, an overage misclassified philosophy professor; Kern, a blowhard rookie; and Zoll, a pornography-minded tub of lard. "Anyone who gives out is going to be left behind," Steiner warns them. When their rations give out, Steiner tells them to eat tree bark, but he also shares the last of his own rations. When Dietz is critically wounded in a night skirmish, it is Steiner who holds the dying boy's hand to comfort him. Snaking their way back toward their own lines, the men capture an unarmed Russian women's mortar group...
...they encounter the fear of "community" people, and learn to dread and despise that fear. Muses Bolle. once a skilled cigarmaker, now with "the homeless hands of the displaced craftsman: "If all people had lived in accordance with their collective fears, everyone would have become stationary, like a tree. In their heart of hearts, perhaps, most people would like to be plants, to be tall trees with eyes that could survey their surroundings and always be able to see and convince themselves that no one was coming, no one was going, no one could move; that all were lookout towers...
...company towns that are still going up in the U.S., community planning is considered a vital factor in attracting a stable, skilled work force. The modern company town is usually a model community with broad, tree-lined streets, spacious shopping centers (which invariably are leased to local merchants) and well-built housing designed to encourage home ownership...
...night the spaceship is assaulted by an invisible monster who leaves footprints like those of a colossal tree sloth, and is completely invulnerable to any kind of atomic attack. Accused by the commander, Morbius reveals his secret: Altair was once inhabited by a race of creatures, the Krell, whose technology was a million years ahead of mankind's. They vanished mysteriously, in a single night, even as they realized their greatest achievement: a civilization without instrumentalities, force without form, spirit without substance. They became, in a word, gods. Or did they? On paper, the answer to this question would...