Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dirt roads and sagging, patched, unpainted shacks. The inevitable railroad tracks. On summer mornings, cotton trucks rolling through the streets in search of pickers. Blood stench in the air on slaughter day at the meatpacking plant. A 29-year-old grandmother drunk--clinging to a tree. Children...
...They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis...
Greatest Since Kissing. The beep line comes and goes among teen-agers all over the U.S.-a kind of electronic equivalent of the old-fashioned tree trunk on which people used to hang messages. It is partly just fad and fun, partly a way of getting dates...
...sensibility, an unusual breadth and warmth of appreciation, a scrupulous fairness. Recalling some of his critiques, his colleagues chose as one of their favorites a passage from a story on Painter John Chumley's work: "A painting of three children's swings, hanging empty from a leafless tree, is filled with yesterday's laughter. And the open window of an abandoned house fills one canvas with mystery, like a mouth that has much to tell but cannot speak...
...Before Cowles came along, the Valley Times was satisfied with a circulation of 50,000. Owner Russell A. Quisenberry kept salaries low (top: $105 a week), filled the pages with canned features that were best exemplified by a column called "Kuff Notes," by Willie Looseleaf ("One thing about a tree surgeon, he never loses a patient unless it's dead wood...