Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only talk about them is, however, something of a culture shock for the visiting professor. "It's like the difference between plant and animal life," he says. "Animals grow quickly, move quickly, and die quickly. Plants take a lot of time to produce something lasting, like a tree. Now I feel I'm being asked to move less and be wise more...
...minute speech after just five minutes of briefing ?and his homespun metaphors cut right through economic obfuscation. Pressed by Senate liberals on tax reform last year, Long responded with a scathing definition: "Tax reform means 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' " In the Senate club, his politesse is unequaled: colleagues are never as beloved or distinguished as they are in their mothers' minds and Long's rhetoric...
...tree-lined 1800 block of West Ninth Street in Bensonhurst is a close-knit neighborhood of working-class Italian families. At least 50 people were outside their neatly kept houses when four shots rang out. Plumber Angelo Treglia, 42, fell dead. After police officers arrived, none of the residents would admit to having seen a thing. "What are they waiting for, another murder?" asked Treglia's tearful widow Tilda, as she begged for someone to identify the killer. Finally, after four days of pleading, Detective Edward Zigo convinced five witnesses that allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen...
Anthropologists now believe that man's family tree (see chart) goes back to a primate called Dryopithecus, a true ape that appeared some 20 million years ago. Much later?by 14 million years ago?the Dryopithecus line had split into three branches...
...include a body of water, but it too is spectacular quite out of proportion to its size (21" by 25 1/2"). Again there is a skillful use of both transparently bright colors and sludge-heavy ones; the sky is a gold-tinged pink in stark contrast to the dark tree silhouetted in the foreground. The landscape in the background is lavenderhued without the musty scent...