Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the day she ordered her followers to strip naked during a violent rainstorm. She said she would cleanse them of sin, but those beyond redemption would be struck dead by a bolt of lightning. According to the legend, no sooner had she spoken than lightning struck a nearby tree, killing two. As the story of the "miracle" spread, Alice's following snowballed; at one time it had as many as 75,000 adherents, though its membership has dwindled since...
...proceeded to build a seven-story pavilion with exposed, welded posts and beams. Nestled in a tree-rimmed ravine, where 100 water jets spout a car pet of spray over a lake (cooling the air-conditioning system), the raw-beamed facade flails the air like some forgotten, gargantuan reaper waiting for the Jolly Green Giant...
...Copy. Teeing off at the start, he pulled his drive into rough, hit his second shot into a trap, somehow blasted out to within 10 ft. of the pin for a par four. The second hole was practically a carbon copy of the first:his drive landed behind a tree, his second shot found a trap-and he still got a par. On and on he went, playing as if he had taken lessons from Rube Goldberg-straying down an adjoining fairway on the eighth, bouncing his ball off a tree on the 15th, dumping his drive into loose...
...Palmer shot a 69 that was good, but not nearly good enough. Nicklaus matched Nichols' first-round record with a magnificent 64. But that only got him a 274, and a tie with Palmer for second place. Nichols had his game under control now. He only hit one tree in 18 holes, sank putts of 15, 18, 35 and 51 ft. for a three-under 67 and a 72-hole total of 271. "All week long, I've been praying to St. Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes," said Nichols, whose previous earnings on the tour this...
Bernays said last night that the Committee would focus its efforts on getting the state legislature in 1965 to reverse its 1962 decision ordering the construction of three underpasses along the tree-lined parkway. The Committee will attempt to mobilize public opinion in areas outside Greater Boston, and thus to bring pressure to bear on the legislators from these areas to vote for repeal...