Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweet young Wheaton girls, at least 150 of them, strung up Fidel Castro in effigy last night. Taking care not to sell their madras skirts, the lynch mob danced 'round the hanging-tree-Maypole, staying "God Bless America," and other patriotic songs...
That same evening, in high romantic style, a clandestine radio transmitter sent a cryptic message crackling across the Caribbean: "Alert! Alert! Look well at the rainbow. The first will rise very soon. Chico is in the house. Visit him. The sky is blue. Place notice in the tree. The tree is green and brown. The letters arrived well. The letters are white. The fish will not take much time to rise. The fish is red. Look well at the rainbow...
...hard-bitten paratroopers in Algeria. Most of the rest of the 500,000-man army still seemed loyal to De Gaulle-as far as anyone could tell. All communications with the outside world were broken off, except for cryptic messages over Radio Algiers ("The palm tree is in the oasis") apparently meant for the right-wing underground in France. But the mutineers found small sympathy among mainland Frenchmen, who are heartily sick of the Algerian bloodshed and gave Charles de Gaulle an overwhelming mandate last January to negotiate a settlement on the basis of Algerian self-determination...
With a sense of obligation towards its wayward and spoiled child, CRIMSON foster parents have decided that the offspring shall henceforth be known as the Elm Tree Society. The elm Tree, we are told, was once the gathering place in the Yard for dissident rebels in the student body...
...CRIMSON hereby welcomes the Elm Tree Society to the fellowship of student rebels and dares any national magazine to imply that the views of the Elm Tree Society President indicate a conservative revival at Harvard...