Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover struck me as being a strangely familiar sight. I wonder if you would satisfy a Georgia girl's curiosity by telling me if the artist could have possibly re-created the Thanksgiving "lighting of the tree" atop Rich's in Atlanta...
That evening, while San Juan residents went to street concerts and free ballets as part of the celebration, the Kennedys attended a dinner at the Governor's marbled La Fortaleza palace, with its trickling fountains, croaking tree frogs and nightblooming hibiscus, on the moonlit Bay of San Juan. Before dinner, in one more demonstration of a President's ceaseless attention to foreign policy's disparate parts, Kennedy summoned to his room John Calvin Hill, U.S. consul general in Santo Domingo. Hill, flown to Puerto Rico for the occasion, spent an hour talking to Kennedy about the Dominican...
...jurisdiction over Eichmann; although the Israeli state did not exist when the crimes were committed, the judges argued that Israel now represents all Jews. "The people is one and the crime is one," they said. "To argue that there is no connection is like cutting away a tree root and branch and saying to its trunk: I have not hurt...
...main roads from the town to U.N. installations outside. When a car with three Swedish soldiers tried to drive through one barrier at a strategic highway tunnel, the Katangese shot the driver in the stomach, then mowed down the other two after the vehicle crashed into a tree...
...days of smaller towns and more frugal ways, Christmas was a simpler and a quieter time. In Indiana everyone cut his own tree in the woods and decorated it with strings of popcorn, gingerbread men, chains of red and green paper, and small colored candles (it was a worrisome thing for Father, who planted himself in a nearby chair with a bucket of water at hand). On Christmas Eve the whole town went to church to see the tableaux of the Nativity performed by the Sunday School children, draped in tablecloths, piano covers and nightgowns. Next morning came the presents...