Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes off with a rich bitch who seems to symbolize ancient Rome itself, the Great Whore of Revelation. Then he tries a popular sex substitute, a pumpkin-breasted, pea-brained Hollywood star (played by Anita Ekberg). On the third night, he covers a fake miracle involving a tree in which the Madonna has supposedly been manifested. When the miracle fails to transpire, the crowd attacks the tree-by obvious inference, the apocalyptic Tree of Life, whose "leaves were for the healing of the nations"-and tears it to pieces...
Faun in Old Felt. In his 35 years in Africa, Ionides has lived for ten days on the partial contents of two ostrich eggs, been trampled by a charging elephant resulting in total deafness of one ear, climbed a 100-ft. tree, despite acrophobia, and with only one arm free, brought down a writhing mamba. He has been bitten by snakes half a dozen times, recorded his numbed sensations and degrees of pain with cool scientific exactitude, and never used antivenin. He has had an entire native village flogged for disobedience and has no qualms about flogging ("It is simple...
...early reading consisted of: "Dostolevsky propped up by a copy of Confessions of a White Slaver." She often read in the boughs of a large tree and picked figs from neighboring branches...
FRAUDULENT FLORA is being pushed through mails by a few unscrupulous nurserymen in offers designed to lead homeowners up the garden path. The "rare and beautiful ailanthus" turns out to be the weedy "stink tree," nothing like its brochure picture; the "amazing climbing peach" produces an inedible gourd unrelated to the peach. FTC is warning nurserymen against shrubbery shenanigans...
Like its banyan tree, which drops roots from its branches to anchor itself firmly in the earth, Florida is reaching out to broaden its growing base. No longer does the state suggest a congeries of retired queen bees, living unproductive Jives on husbands' insurance and making the worker bees who serve them miserable with demanding, captious ways and parsimonious tips. Florida has become a boiling melting pot, mixing retired Ohioans with young Michiganders, New Englanders with Hoosiers. The state now boasts not only the world's largest shuffleboard club (in St. Petersburg) but its largest missile testing ground...