Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lagos, naked children ran through the streets blowing "ZEE-EEK" on whistles handed out by supporters of Eastern Region Premier Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, or noisily deflated colored toy balloons producing the sound of a crowing cock, symbol of Zik's N.C.N.C. Party. Overhead, imported skywriters drew a palm tree in the sky, symbol of Zik's free-spending opponent, Obafemi Awolowo, premier of the Western Region. Twelve busloads of ringers from Ghana were discovered just in time, and turned back at the border before they could vote. In one outlying area, four chiefs were arrested for registering...
...convict dressed as Father Christmas gave out the presents under a 20-ft. tree. Other convicts served iced cakes, candies and jellies that a former bricklayer had made in the prison kitchen the day before. Guards, unarmed, strolled about in costumes too, but had nothing to worry about: convicts were on their honor. Near by, the African prisoners swung into a haunting Silent Night, And on the fringes of the crowd, snatching bits of paper streamers and begging slices of watermelon, were scores of ragged black children who had not been invited. "Next year," promised a prison warder...
Slicing the Tree. The pathologists removed the whole breathing apparatus ("tracheobronchial tree") from the bodies of 402 men who died in Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange and in eleven New York hospitals (mainly in nonindustrial towns to reduce bias that might result from air pollution). It turned out that 63 of the men had died of lung cancer and 339 from other causes, but the pathologists did not know this until after they had finished their findings. Each "tree" was cut into 208 portions and embedded in paraffin. Fifty-five of these portions, chosen for microscopic study, were then...
...direct an industrial empire that has 66,000 employees in Holland, 114,000 in the rest of the world. It thus rates after General Electric as the largest employer in its field, generates 12% of Holland's industrial export income by turning out scores of products including Christmas tree lights, Norelco electric shavers, television sets, super-powered electron microscopes, hospital equipment and musical recordings. At the drop of an order, the company can overhaul a complete national telephone system, as it did for Argentina, build a 160 million-volt cyclotron, as it did for the University of Paris...
...Once Upon a Christmas Tree (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A fantasy by Paul Gallico about 13 orphans who spend Christ mas in a New England town. With Claude Rains, Charles Ruggles, Patty (Miracle Worker) Duke. Color...