Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ttringshausen, a suburb of Dortmund, West Germany, were startled early last week by the sound of gunshots issuing from a dense forest only 200 yds. from a crowded autobahn. Police investigating the reports surprised two men and a woman blazing away with pistols at a newspaper pinned to a tree. The trio turned their weapons on the police, killing one officer and wounding another in the thigh. The wounded cop managed to shoot two of the attackers, who were later identified as Michael Knoll, 27, and Angelika Speitel, 26, both members of the terrorist Red Army Faction. Speitel is wanted...
...fruit bats that objected to the indignity of having their private parts probed so their would-be saviors could ascertain their sex. They suffered seasickness and sunstroke to capture rare lizards. But to capture the cyclamen-colored Mauritian pink pigeon, all the rescuers risked was a fall from a tree. The birds proved so suicidally stupid that they merely watched, heads cocked with curiosity, as a Mauritian soldier the size of a middle linebacker climbed up a tree with all the agility of an elephant and snagged one in a net. Not all endangered species, it appears, play hard...
...history and political science concentrators should note with interest the portrayal of ultra-rich industrialist Daddy Warbucks as FDR's old pal. English and Slavic lit. concentrators, likewise, should note the Lolita-like flavor of Annie's and Daddy's relationship. The rest of us can enjoy the Christmas tree. The box office number, if you're twisted enough to want to see this...
Schmidt was led to his discovery by Haya elders, who showed him a "shrine tree" that they said marked the site of ancient iron smelters long worked by their people. Because the Haya can now buy inexpensive, European-made steel tools and make more money raising coffee and other crops, they stopped producing their own steel some 50 years ago. Thus the only Haya who could recall details of the steelmaking process were very old, and as Schmidt and Avery write, this knowledge was "threatened every day by the passage of time, by death and by age-related infirmities occurring...
...first night in France, Charles Lindbergh had to borrow a pair of the distinguished U.S. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick's pajamas. We Herricks are very proud to have those famous pajamas hanging on our family tree...