Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squad car pulls in front of Beta, talks to a Jock who leans in the window, and leaves. A bottle shatters among a half dozen Beta people. A lot of Jocks immediately attack Carmen, running across the street and scaling a 16-foot gate. A bottle brushes through a tree I am standing under and smashes on the sidewalk three feet away. It is disintegrated, powdered into glass fragments no larger than pebbles. I calculate later that a bottle thrown from the tenth floor of Carmen's 15 floors is moving 60 miles an hour when it hits the street...
...Edgar moves into a new neighborhood with no friends, he makes up a secret "looking down game," and discovers beetles, patterns in floating leaves, ants and a bird's nest. All year he plays his game until a new friend takes his hand and helps him up a tree. Then Edgar, a black city child, finds a new and even more exciting world to explore...
...first successful combat tests of the "starlight scope"-one of the prying electronic gadgets developed by the Defense Department "to take the night away from Charlie." Lieut. Hibbs was well briefed on the scope's importance; though mortally wounded, he smashed it against a tree rather than let it fall into the hands of the enemy. He won a posthumous Medal of Honor for his performance on that night patrol. Since then, thousands of starlight scopes have been shipped to Viet Nam; jungle-wise infantrymen are so impressed by their versatility that they use almost any G.I. dodge...
Most students take their drugs out across the playing fields near the Exeter River by a tree made famous in John Knowles' novel, A Separate Peace. They use little acid, and some amphetamines. They never use speed to study for exams. They use it for escape
...issue now are the tactics from the last bust. Some students dropped a heavy potted tree from an overpass onto parked police cars and then finished off the windshield with bricks. Many windows in administration and classroom buildings were broken. Two fires were started, one destroying ten year's research of a man who had spoken against SDS policies...