Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like a scene out of a Graham Greene novel: a Central-American strongman and an Oxford-educated Briton sat beneath a coconut tree on a tropical beach philosophizing. The strongman, Panamanian Dictator Omar Torrijos, noted that both their fathers had been teachers, and that he had left his family at 17. The Briton, Author Greene himself, mused between sips of rum punch: "You should thank God you did escape from home, because if you hadn't you might be an intellectual today." Greene quickly added: "I am not, because to be an intellectual is rather academic. A creative writer...
...while the "typical" student rambles on, his rommate may be planning anything from a family tree research project in Georgia to a week long blind date in Rye, New York...
George W. Varn '76-4 says his interest in geneology originated at a 1974 family reunion in Collins, Miss. Varn encountered relatives there he never knew about, including sveral who had traced their family tree back to John Terrell, a physician who practiced there a century...
...average American Christmas tree contains nearly 1 million pine needles, real or synthetic...
...brush with death on the trail. He went over the edge of what appeared to be a small jump and found himself staring at an eight foot drop. He told himself to relax and enjoy the ride and began to project his trajectory when he noticed a fallen tree resting on its branches directly in his path. He slammed into it at full speed, the trunk hitting him in mid-thigh. He, too, managed to ski away with only severe bruises. He skis...