Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amidst the dry, gum-tree scrub of Rum Jungle, 60 miles inland from the Timor Sea, miners clad only in boots and shorts drilled uranium out of soft slate. At Woomera, where the waterless South Australian plain stretches endlessly off to the horizon, romantically named drones and missiles-Jindiviks, Blue Streaks and Black Knights-soared over the free world's largest land rocket range. In beach-girt Sydney, schoolteachers and tram conductors exchanged stock market tips, and in stately Adelaide, where Australia's first major Festival of the Arts was in full swing, T. S. Eliot...
...seller: the great-great-great-grandson of the Andrews couple, who posed under a tree that is still alive. The ostensible buyer: Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, but U.S. Oilman Paul Getty hovered at Agnew's side, looking grimly determined...
...Princess Margaret to a happily suitable commoner, Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, the editors of a top British authority on noble genealogy, Debrett's Peerage, came along to spoil the illusion that Tony is just an ordinary bloke. After 16 days of laborious climbing in a forest of family trees, Debrett's Assistant Editor Patrick Montague-Smith proclaimed that Armstrong-Jones is not only of royal blood but also a very distant kinsman of Margaret. In a complex chart, Montague-Smith submitted proof that Tony is 22nd in descent from King Edward I's daughter Elizabeth* Moreover...
...effective antileprosy drugs did not reach Samoa until 1951, eight years late. Today, this drug (DDS, for diaminodiphenyl-sulfone) is still the only one available there because it is the cheapest, though Dr. Donohugh believes later drugs would be more effective. And the tumbledown barracks building under a banyan tree. used as a leprosarium, is in such disrepair that Dr. Donohugh suggested the only thing to do was to burn it down...
...Last week, in a field of 29,000 bright high school seniors from every state in the Union, Jerry walked off with the top $7,500 award in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. His winning project: an ion accelerator made of such handy items as a Christmas-tree ornament and a float from a pig watering trough...