Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...allowed himself only one Syrette for his own wounds, for fear that he might dull his mind and hamper his work. At dawn, the job done, Joel recalls looking at himself: hands encrusted with blood to the wrists, legs thick with edema and dirty bandages. He lay under a tree and cried for the first time since he was a boy in Winston-Salem...
...what Nix's camera really captured. Employing advanced methods that were not available to the Warren Commission, Itek concluded in a 55-page report that 1) no one could be discerned on the suspect area of the knoll, 2) the purported figure of a rifleman was actually a tree's shadow, 3) the raised object was probably a vehicle in a parking lot behind the knoll, and 4) because of abutments and other obstructions, it would have been virtually impossible to sharpshoot from the vehicle's position on the knoll. "Exhaustive studies," said Itek, "failed to turn...
...possibility that the chute might actually take off, taking the rider along with it, adds spice. That, in fact, is precisely what happened to Colorado State Junior John Junker three weeks ago. Gus helped too much, lofted Junker into a tree, fracturing an elbow...
...play the Midwest vaudeville circuit, finally rocketed to fame in 1937 with Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, went on to blend adhesive harmony and speedy tempo into such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo, Rum and Coca Cola, Beer Barrel Polka and Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, altogether selling 60 million copies of almost 900 recordings; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...department head, yearns to establish himself as a television panelist. Frayn's greatest comic invention is to take a horde of thirsty European journalists on a boondoggling press junket to the Near East. At each unlikely way station toward a destination never reached, they consume more and more tree booze, "compliments of Magic Carpet." By the time of the denouement in Ljubljana, ?5,000 worth of liquid hospitality has been consumed. While they drink, Frayn mocks but does not eviscerate; the chroniclers of a society, he seems to be saying, mirror the society itself...