Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Mrs. Suzman and many other Verwoerd opponents are Jews, Nationalist backbenchers shifted from white supremacy to antiSemitism, shouting: "Go to Israel!" One Nationalist M.P. was more poetic. He told Mrs. Suzman, "You are a finch chirping on a thorn tree...
...were on the backs of mice be cause the skin there is of the same cellular class as the inside of a man's lung. More recently, to study an approximation of what happens when smoke rushes past the tiny, hairlike filter system (cilia) of the human respiratory tree, the researchers have taken to using parts of the gills of hard-shell clams...
Modern-technology, he predicted, will soon make the lectures and libraries of any university available to students across the country. At the same time, "with the sprouting of subspecialities from old root disciplines, no university can now contain the full growth of the tree of knowledge...
...There, packs of as many as 1,000 wild pigs grunt through the bush, uprooting and trampling all the foliage in their path. Timid, 600-lb. tapirs-distant relatives of the African rhinoceros-plod warily along the narrow, muddy trails. Chachalacas, parrots and howler monkeys noise endlessly from the tree tops...
...stylites, as they were called, perched on platforms as high as 80 feet; lived on olives; occasionally were struck by lightning. Stylites like St. Simeon found "refuge in a tree as Noah found it in an ark, so as to avoid contact with a condemned world in its last agony and lead the life of a bird in the branches and the wind, a bird possessed of God and the thought of Heaven...