Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lilacs or lilies-of-the-valley, framed pictures, an old square piano with a tasseled shawl, candle brackets by the main door, a writing desk and accoutrements, a folding screen, antimacassars on the backs and arms of chairs, and so on. Hovering over everything in the back are gray tree branches suggestive of tentacles that keep the inhabitants rooted to their provincial garrison town although they long to go to Moscow and its supposedly greener grass. (But Chekhov himself is careful again and again to poke holes in the characters' absurd vision of Moscow as an alleged paradise. Furthermore...
GREENPORT, L.I. Summer Playhouse. Adam and Eve face newlywed adjustments, a warrior must choose between his love and a tiger, and a chimney sweep is transformed into a movie star in The Apple Tree, three episodes with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, the team who did Fiddler on the Roof...
...came to understand the substance of her mother-in-law's fears. At the Belgian Grand Prix in 1966, her husband's car spun out of control as he whipped around a rain-slick corner at 150 m.p.h., and ripped through a telegraph pole and a tree before it screamed to a halt. For 35 minutes Stewart was trapped in the cockpit as the gasoline from his full tanks rose to his armpits. Miraculously, the car did not explode, and a team of workmen managed...
...talk ranged over a variety of personal concerns-the shading elm tree in the front yard that had to come down, a son who seldom came to visit, all the small but vital concerns of an old woman in a house and a life that for many years had been too empty. In content, it was very little different from the 150 calls a month received by 323-1819, which is the number of a service known as Dial-a-Listener. At the receiving end is a rotating staff of ten volunteers-including the schoolteacher, a nurse, an author...
...situation among the three year old fillies is quite different. Four are outstanding, but two--Ta Wee and Process Sot--have proved they cannot sprint farther than a mile. A Delaware Park sometime in the late afternoon the two remaining contenders for the tree year, old filly crown will settle the score over nine furlongs. They are Mrs. Whitney Stone's Shuvee and King Ranch's Gallant Bloom...