Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like many other Harvard institutions, the rule has continued through the yeas; and Jesse Garner, a staff assistant in the parking office, says, "we (the parking office) can't really change policy although it;s obvious that something needs to be done. I guess no student has shaken the tree hard enough...
...federal bite, which is the biggest. While three out of four of those federal returns will ask for refunds, the hope of getting a little money back will often be dampened by the duty of computation ("My own return has driven me right up the tree," confesses a man at the U.S. Treasury...
...attitudes are changing. As the cost of the fertilizers needed to boost yields for such crops soars prohibitively, and as other resources become scarcer, experts have pressed the search for cheaper, easier-to-raise alternatives. In this hunt, many other plants are being rediscovered. Among them: the Mexican leucaena tree (as a forage for cattle), the jojoba bean (for its oil) and the Southwest's weedlike guayule (as a source of natural rubber...
...Biffi. "I had the rare, beautiful pleasure of making money out of something I enjoyed doing and then spending as soon as I made it. As I lunched, I knew that this was my cat?I mean my drawing of a cat?that I was consuming; followed by a tree, the moon and so forth...
...many other jobs he pulled), Nussbaum served 14 years in federal pens where he became a prolific and successful crime writer, mostly for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. He now turns out screeds under his own name, which is German for nut tree, as well as Alberto Avellano and A.F. Oreshnik, which have similar meanings in, respectively, Spanish and Russian. E. Richard Johnson is another con, whose fine first novel, Silver Street, won a Mystery Writers of America Edgar award in 1968. Johnson, alas, is back in the slammer: a slight case of armed robbery...