Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sight unworldly. There were no marks of violence, no blood. Only a few bodies showed the gruesome signs of cyanide rictus. Outside there were three dead dogs, poisoned. Down the road in a large cage was 'Mr. Muggs,' the commune's pet gorilla. He had been shot. In a tree-shaded area was Jones' home, a three-room bungalow. Bodies were scattered through all three rooms, some on beds, others on the floor. The quiet was broken only by the meowing of a cat beyond the porch...
Foreman laughs off the criticism and is happy that she enjoys the confidence of Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland as well as of her friend Joan Claybrook. On Foreman's 40th birthday Claybrook gave her a gift: a spiky cactus plant. It was festooned like a Christmas tree, with candy, chewing gum and junk food that Foreman had just proposed banning from sale during school lunch hours. Today only a few of the trimmings remain on the tree. The rest, reports Foreman, have been eaten by her sugar-loving staff...
...year-old Fiedler cancelled an appearance at the Prudential Center, where he was scheduled to lead a sing-along during the lighting of the center's Christmas tree...
Fleming shook things up in the first 20 minutes, darting in and around the UMass defense for 10 points as the Crimson tried to find some openings against the tree-like Minutemen...
True. Even in mundane ways, Americans like to look ahead. In Manhattan last week, long before anyone ate a turkey, a giant spruce tree from New Jersey was raised over the Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink. The Christmas season was already under way. In the Northern California lumber town of Burney, Don Whitman, 67, closed down his barbershop and his wife Edna locked her antique shop, and the two of them renewed a family tradition: cutting Christmas trees. "It's a happiness business," says Mrs. Whitman. "I imagine all the excitement and joy connected with every Christmas tree...