Word: treeing
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...mustache and trademark eyebrows are snow white, and Wayne Morse looks his 73 years. But he refuses to act the senior citizen. At a Memorial Day picnic, Oregonians, who call him the Old Tiger, watched him sprint across the grass after a sign that had been blown from a tree. Next day Democrats showed confidence in his wind by nominating him for his old seat in the U.S. Senate...
Mary Parkman Peabody, LL.D., civil rights activist. Marietta Tree, LL.D., former United States delegate to the United Nations. Frances FitzGerald, Litt.D., author (Fire in the Lake...
...Flavors of Exile the sun bakes down on two adolescents sitting under a pomegranate tree. The last piece of fruit falls-overripe, fermenting, already crawling with ants. The boy takes a stick and skewers the fruit as casually as he has already skewered the girl's affection for him. In The Words He Said, two lovers sit by a bonfire at a country dance, tense, frustrated, until the very heat of the fire seems to raise their feelings to the even hotter temperatures of hate. In Wine, a couple linger in a Paris café. The man recalls...
...felt a certain helplessness in the presence of outdoor nature. Compared with his still lifes, for instance, a set of landscapes that he painted at Céret near the Spanish border of France in 1913 are almost embarrassing: he could not reduce the intractable organic shapes of hill, tree and terrace to anything much better than a set of decorous formal clichés whose color verges on the garish. Indeed, the only part of the great outdoors he could handle with ease and pleasure was the sea -itself flat, rotating upward to face the viewer like a blue...
Sample Distortion No. 3: Shapiro claims I said: "We expected to get our asses kicked through a tree, and we did. It was one of the most moving [?!] experiences of my life. We expected to get killed. It was like watching the dogs go after the foxes." This really wins the prize. I never said this insane garbage, if I had I'd deserve the Masochist of the Year award. What did inspire me was the tremendous spirit of people during the bust. Unlike foxes being chased by hounds, it was a tremendous, collective sort of heroism, with everyone much...