Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building dams and plants, drilling for water (oil has just been discovered) and razing gourbis (mud shacks) in the casbah. He is pushing Israeli-style tree planting to restore the forests that legend says once covered ancient Carthage and promoting a new fishing industry that has already spawned four shipyards and 16 canneries. He has also encouraged tourism, which perked up four years ago when northern Europeans began discovering Tunisia's unspoiled beaches, its jasmine-scented Arab towns and the antiquities that date back to Hannibal's time...
Around them were broad expanses of paper-mache tree trunks and miniature battleships which 20th Century Fox left behind when they sold the property to the Century Corporation. People were so close together and there were so many placards that the march looked more fronzied than even the best-staged rally at a political convention...
...idea I want to get rid of," said Theatrician Peter Ustinov, 46, "is that of Actor Ustinov coming in to save a fragile bauble-a script by Writer Ustinov." By way of making his point, Ustinov is looking on as his new play, Halfway Up the Tree, opens this season in five productions in four countries in three languages-and he won't have a role in any of them. Lest he seem totally idle, he will direct the New York version, hop over to London occasionally to watch Sir John Gielgud direct that company, shove on to France...
...cash in. Last week, completing the first step of a project that may rank as one of the biggest land developments in the U.S., the Irvine Company opened a $20 million, 75-acre super shopping center called Fashion Island. The center embraces 56 handsome stores strung along a broad, tree-lined pedestrian mall overlooking the Pacific. Aiming at well-heeled shoppers from suburban Newport Beach and Balboa as well as Los Angeles, Fashion Islanders expect to ring up sales of $35 million a year...
...whacky flashbacks, appears to be his pedigree. His grandfather, a hypnotist, tried to stop a German tank by putting the whammy on it; his father, a railroad man retired at 48, has settled on a sin to his liking: sloth. Now, the boy prepares to ascend the family tree and take the inevitable fall...