Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memorial service for the men of all nations killed in the Battle of Waterloo: "We have had many ceremonies this week. You might call this one eccentric, in line with the curious behavior of the English." I did make the comment that same day when planting an oak tree to commemorate the first cricket match ever played in Belgium by British officers on the eve of the battle. The ceremony at Hougoumont, however, was a solemn and very impressive religious service, and your report places these words in the wrong context...
...first centuries of Christianity. "The Jews have the promise of God," writes Protestant Theologian Karl Barth, "and if we Christians from among the Gentiles have it too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, as new wood grafted onto their old tree...
...tree is still somewhat suspicious of the new wood. But some of the same events and trends that have moved Christian scholars back to the Old Testament have moved young Jews back to the Bible-not as something to be reinterpreted and explained, but as the Word of God, to be confronted head on. This confrontation is not primarily with the minutiae of the Law but with the God of the Covenant and with the expectation of the Messiah's coming for the transformation of mankind. There is a growing awareness that without the light of religion, neither United...
...features are: 1) a central pavilion where young children could keep out of the rain during the day and teen-agers could hold meetings at night, and 2) enough lumber, bricks, rope, pipes, hammers and nails to keep the kids busy. With a minimum of supervision, they would build tree houses, hideaways, swings-or just mud castles-and cook their own meals over an outdoor fire...
There have also been width problems. Harvard tried to buy the adjacent land for $100,000; but the owner, a college teacher and former Harvard M.A., refused to sell unless Harvard gave him an honorary Ph.D. "The owner," Babcock said, "refused to leave his house as long as the tree in front of it stood that tree. But the University may get the property soon. The tree died last summer...