Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room called The Sultan's Table has a mosquelike dome, a 25-foot "grape tree" (from which wafts the artificial fragrance of grapes), and ten strolling violinists. "I wanted them to play Stradivaris," said Sahara's Host Manny Skar, who was once convicted of burglary, "but my insurance wouldn't cover it." Manny is aggrieved that local newspapers have been digging up his past. "It is callous and unkind to repeatedly allude to my mistakes of long ago. Some of the people whom I know may not be entirely antiseptic. But most are banking, labor, civic, industrial...
...known Princess Grace from her Hollywood days, finds her a cool customer, but "I consider her profile the most beautiful I ever photographed." Mme. Houphouet-Boigny looked fine in her Paris gown, but, says Halsman, "she is a naturally lovely girl. If I met her under a tree with only a native dress on, I would immediately pick her out as beautiful...
...John Herrmann took the arm to the operating room. To guard against clots, he flushed out the whole artery-vein system with a special saline solution combined with antibiotics, an anticoagulant and a radiopaque dye. X rays promptly showed that the arterial tree was open all the way to the fingertips. Relieved, Dr. Herrmann picked up the arm, carried it carefully to the operating table on which Ev Knowles had just been wheeled in, all draped except for his torn and bloody shoulder...
...should have stayed with the boys in Fort Lauderdale. Greek grandeur is not duplicated by a setting in Thebes (Mich.) or Greek name-dropping. Swarthout reads like a parody of a bad translation of Homer: "At last the leaves are fallen; then do men their duty to the tree-crop, rite singular to towns, to which only fathers and sons may be initiate: leaf burning . . . Wives and mothers watch, doing dishes, their heads and shoulders oracular in kitchen light...
...fever's acute onset could be blamed on the weather-hot, dry air had spread tree and grass pollen over wide areas. And the big sneeze could be linked with a long-range trend; in the last four decades, hay fever incidence has increased fivefold until nearly 9,000,000 people suffer from it each year in the U.S. Hay fever, says Philadelphia Allergist Dr.Philip Gottlieb, is a disease of civilization...