Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once a Hudson River whaling port and a headquarters for George Washington's colonial army, steep-sloping, tree-shaded Newburgh (pop. 31,000) has long been a shopping center for the green and pleasant fruit farms that prosper in the rolling hills of Orange County. Since World War II, most of the farms have been serviced by migrant workers, mostly Negroes from the Deep South, who drift from harvest to harvest during the long summer. Inevitably, many migrants have settled in Newburgh; since 1950 the number of Negro residents has risen 151%, even though the city's overall...
...Cinerama film with a plot. Daughter of Chicago American Gossip Columnist Maggie Daly Bazlen, Brigid is compared by flacks to Elizabeth Taylor and described by associates as a "woman-child" with "something inside her that is 30." In How the West Was Won, she ends up hanging from a tree limb because she lures Old Trapper Jimmy Stewart into a cave, goes for his pelt and tries to kill him. When she is really 30. she'll probably...
...board, and constantly threatens to fire them-Currier, now 46, started his theater when he was 17, and built it into one of the country's most durable stock houses by the traditional method-milking Broadway cows turned out to pasture (this season: Under the Yum-Yum Tree, The Pleasure of His Company, etc.). But he has also mixed in Wilde, Williams, Sherwood, and Giraudoux, giving the Kennebunkport Playhouse a high reputation among actors, critics, and the sober side of his audiences. Performers are fond of returning there, including Tallulah Bankhead, Henry Morgan, Russell Nype, and Currier...
...would go out, make three paintings, afterwards working on them a little at home. Except for his paintbox and easel, he looked like a peasant of the south of France, in corduroy coat and trousers. But enlarged in the statue, this corduroy looks like the bark of a tree. It looks like the texture he used in his Arles paintings, the great big scratches in his corn and wheatfields. Everything about him is so strikingly interesting. I did it with enormous enthusiasm...
...have invested well over $2 billion to buy 200 jets, have another 200 of them on order. As expected, the high-priced jets have attracted many new passengers, but not nearly enough to fill the expanded number of seats. Load factors have slumped since 1957 from 61.5% to a tree-skimming...