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Word: tree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...rhymes with tree high) is Vietnamese for "O.K., go ahead," not to be confused with Di Di (pronounced dee dee), which can mean anything from "get out of here" to "follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In the Boonies, It's Numbah Ten Thou' | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...Fifth Avenue the competition produces some of the most breathtaking displays in the country. The prize for gaudiness goes to E. J. Korvette's, which prides itself on a huge semicircular tree of lights that juts out from the building's side and shines for 20 blocks. Claiming that religious themes cannot be handled with discretion, Lord & Taylor plays out its "Christmas Is Love" theme with nuzzling poodles, smooching skunks and necking giraffes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The Great Festival | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

...taxes from Kuwaitis, he wiped out unemployment in a land of underfed illiterates, created an elaborate school system and the world's most lavish welfare state, rebuilt the mud brick capital city of Kuwait into a tidy little air-conditioned marvel of modern office buildings and apartments and tree-lined boulevards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait: A Man for All Arabs | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...ingenious. Men use the clips for makeshift key chains and tie clips. Frustrated executives fire them against the wall with rubber bands. Secretaries use them to keep hairdos in place or hold broken bra straps together. And, bent lengthwise, a paper clip makes a perfect hook for hanging Christmas tree balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Office: The Gem of the Gizmos | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...that girl prancing on the hood of a Rolls, strutting along a beach on ice skates, fording a stream on a water buffalo, serving tea in a space suit, climbing a tree in a cocktail dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: The Furor Over Fashions | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

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