Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Howard Holmes of Kaiser Aluminum: "The future looks good, but it's going to be tougher for our industry to grow. We're going to have to spend more for research and promotion to build acceptance of new products. The plums have pretty well fallen off the tree...
...population, it has been decreed that women are like fountains: if anyone is thirsty, he drinks from the nearest one. Mah is peacefully attending to his duties as the custodian of a temple to Mao (formerly a temple to Confucius) when his room is invaded by a Female Old Tree Trunk (party member of long standing) who is pregnant by a local party boss. She announces that Mah is her new Comrade Sweetheart, and that he will be the "honorary father" of the child she is about to have. It is no use protesting, Mah finds, because the party boss...
...rotten tree lives only in its rind...
Terry Frost, 45. Abandoning the bakery where he decorated "three thousand bleeding hot cross buns at 4 o'clock in the morning," Frost went to war in 1939, spent four years in German prison camps. "I remember watching the last golden leaf fall from a tree across the wire in Bavaria," he recalls. "It was a terrible loss." Now a Cornwall man like Lanyon, he says: "I've got a feeling I'm losing the landscape. I'm getting nearer and nearer to pure abstract painting. I want conflict and contrast...
...hand finds plenty to eat -berry bushes and beehives can't run away. And while the cub is getting honey, the pup is getting stung. At night, when the pup settles down for some shut-eye on a nice soft patch of grass, the bear climbs the nearest tree. Dawn finds the dog's muzzle sleeping blissfully on the grass, while his rump, caught in the leash, sleeps fitfully about 18 inches off the ground...