Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people walked out into the sunlight. The man was tall and burly, his mane of dark wavy hair streaked with grey. His wife was plain and wore her dark blonde hair brushed back over her ears in a severe boyish bob. Absorbed in quiet argument, they walked along the tree-lined street to a neighborhood park, where they talked some more. Then, arm in arm, they returned to the house, and the man bade his wife farewell...
...fine blue flame when ignited. Their staple food is rice and pla raa-raw fish that has been allowed to rot for as long as six months. They also eat tarantulas drenched with fermented fish juice, bamboo shoots marinated in buffalo blood, ant eggs, fried bee larvae and tree lizards in chili sauce. These dishes are tasty, but they also contain liver flukes, hookworms and other parasites; as a result, fully 90% of all northeasterners suffer from one or an other debilitating disease. Government teams dose whole villages with worming medicines, distribute pamphlets saying, "Please eat hot food...
...Silveira, who is rumored to have sold his soul to the Devil, and the ferocious Badaró brothers, Juca and Sinhõ. Neither Juca nor Colonel Horacio would dream of having a face-to-face showdown in Ilhéus' main street, but each knew that every tree, every clump of bushes, every dark alley might conceal an assassin...
...frug (pronounced froog). The rest are all charades. The dog, for example, is a slow-motion jerk (known in less erudite circles as the bump and grind), which is a slow-motion frug. Add a backstroke arm motion to the frug and you have the swim; add a tree-climbing motion and you have the monkey. Stick your thumbs in your ears and it's the mouse or the mule; up in the air, and it's the hitchhiker?and so on for the woodpecker, Cleopatra, Popeye, Harry James, Frankenstein...
...traveling U.S. businessman who looks to Manhattan for culinary cachet, perhaps no group of restaurants has created more interest than Restaurant Associates. Its 19 restaurants-from the tree-decked Four Seasons to the Lucullan Forum of the Twelve Caesars, from the Italianesque Mamma Leone's to the open-all-night Brasserie -are a successful blend of imaginative showmanship, lofty prices and aspiration to high cuisine. Waldorf System, Inc., is a somewhat different chain of restaurants. Its 83 cafeterias, drive-ins and pancake houses in eight states lean heavily on self-service eateries in poor locations, offer such dishes...