Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes a heap o' birthday cake to commemorate a man's 96th birthday. And so when 250 friends of John Nance Garner gathered at his Uvalde, Texas, home, they thoughtfully brought along a two-foot-high, German-style Baum-kuchen (tree cake), and two smaller ones decorated with the six flags that have flown over Texas. Cactus Jack eyed them. He studied his neighbors, many of whom can't rightly remember the days when he was Franklin Roosevelt's Vice President, a job he liked to refer to as "a spare tire on the automobile...
...have studied Mississippi politics and power structure for more than ten years, and I think that the former Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the Justice Department, its civil rights division, the Negro leaders-in Mississippi, and the civil rights organizations are barking up the wrong tree in Mississippi, with their lawsuits, contempt trials against registrars, their voting schools, registration projects, freedom parties, etc. This is nothing more or less than political foolery...
...common name for this tree in general use is London plane," according to Bernice G. Schubert, associate curator of the Arboretum, "but the use of common names is virtually meaningless." She appealed yesterday for use of the Latin nomenclature of the hybrid Platanus acerifolia...
...came out on the Charles one night prayin' for the moon to give them light For they'd many a tree to cut that night Before they left the town-o, town-o, town-o, For they'd many a tree to cut that night Before they leave the town...
Peter S. Green, horticultural taxonomist at the Arnold Arboretum, said that he suspected the trees to be hybrids of the native American sycamore (also known as the buttonwood) and the Mediterranean species of plane tree. If they are, he said, "London plane would be a better name for them...