Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dear by Lyndon in running the Senate, and Bobby was the expert at estimating the overall mood. While so engaged, Baker was forever scurrying back and forth across the Democratic side of the floor. Indeed, at times he looked like a busy, busy squirrel that owned a great oak tree and spent its days dashing about the limbs to make sure all the acorns remained in place. Part of Baker's job was keeping track of the voting. On important measures, he usually kept tab on narrow white tally sheets. On the more routine votes, he would more than...
Inquisition or romance unrolls a faded rug before the fallen yellow sun before the prickly tree fringe beyond the stones and chimneys...
...road outside Tanan in the Mekong Delta, a young U.S. Army captain cheerfully explained to TIME Correspondent Frank McCulloch how a new "clear and hold" operation was to sweep his area clean of Communists. In mid-sentence he stopped, ordered his driver to turn around. Just ahead, atop a tree, rippled the yellow-starred flag of the Viet Cong, a unit of which had evidently managed to slip back into the neighborhood after being swept...
...which carries the man's name and the dates of his first and last days on earth. The bare cedars quake on wintry, windy Texas days, and the grass is brown and forlorn. Here and there a leaf flutters and a sudden swarm of starlings lights in a tree for a moment, only to take off like a cloud in the bleak sky. And on the grave are a pot of withered chrysanthemums, some carnations and nine sprays of pretty pink roses. The roses are plastic...
...else came close. Nearly crashing into a tree, Colorado's Werner was lucky to finish 17th, and the fastest of all the U.S. skiers, as it turned out, was California's Ni Orsi, 19, who had barely qualified for the team, wound up 14th. Winner Zimmermann did his best to console the losers. "After all," he said, "it's only proper that an Austrian should win on an Austrian mountain...