Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fantasy." We have lived in Southern California for twelve years and watched nearly everything encapsulate itself within a plastic bubble: not only giant "pop Xanadus" like Universal Studios, but also miniature golf courses, shopping centers and finally the American home. Vicarious living drives me up a tree, which, by the way, used to be a great source of fun and fantasy. So did tide-pools, hopscotch and lightning bugs...
...uneasy truce was signed 24 years ago. In that time, 54 Americans have been killed in a variety of clashes with the North Koreans; last year, Captain Arthur G. Bonifas and Lieut. Mark T. Barrett were bludgeoned to death with pikes and axes when they began pruning a tree in the DMZ. North and South Koreans killed in similar incidents number more than...
...that for the rest of this long movie we watch two trucks with four truck drivers negotiate some difficult roads in the rain. Along the way they encounter such exciting obstacles as an Indian who makes faces at them, a bridge that swings when the wind blows, a tree that has fallen across the road, and a gang of completely unbelievable guerillas...
True to his word, the murderer struck again last week, creeping up behind a couple parked on a tree-shaded street near a disco-théque in the borough of Queens and firing four shots from his .44-caliber Charter Arms "Bulldog." Though Judy Placido, 17, and Salvatore Lupo, 20, his tenth and eleventh victims, were wounded, both miraculously survived. But the latest, and most publicized, attack tightened the grip of fear on neighborhoods in Queens and in The Bronx, where the bizarre, psychopathic killer has chosen his targets...
...miles an hour, a lone driver smashes his car into a tree and dies in the wreckage. A highway cop notes the dry, straight road and lack of skid marks, then lists the cause of death as "improper driving." But behavioral scientists-as well as police-have long theorized that many such otherwise inexplicable crashes are actually disguised suicides...