Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis...
...Lasky (2) 3. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (5) 4. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (4) 5. Rascal, North (3) 6. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (6) 7. The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (7) 8. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower 9. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (8) 10. The Education of American Teachers, Conant...
...sallied forth in search of her estranged father, Tran Van Chuong, who was replaced as Vietnamese Ambassador to Washington two months ago after criticizing Diem's policies. With a score of newsmen and photographers trailing her, she pounded on the door of the darkened Tran home on a tree-lined Washington street while her lovely, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, rang the bell. No answer. Next she peeped through a window. No signs of life. She went around to the back door. Still no answer. No wonder. The Trans were in Manhattan, where the ex-ambassador was laying...
...were beheaded. One mer ry laird of Home, says the 14th Earl, used to invite his neighbors to dinner and, "having wined them and dined them until they were under the table, would then proceed to acquire their property. Then he would hang them by the neck to a tree outside the bedroom window to remind himself of, as he used to say, 'the danger of overindulgence.' " Home adds: "The English always say that we Scots retarded the advance of civilization. If we had known what civilization was going to be like, we would have retarded...
...pursuit of an early death. In Manon's virgin youth, the stage is warmed by springtime; in her Parisian tryst, the shabbiness of the curtains and walls is almost a state of mind; when she dies, her lover's desolation is framed in a lane of twisted tree stumps. Anna Moffo and Nicolai Gedda as Manon and the Chevalier Des Grieux seemed nervous with the French libretto, but Conductor Thomas Schippers had a poetic command of the music...