Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Explains Linda Winer, a veteran Boston travel agent who says she has never experienced such a busy year: "The same people who regard tuna and Sara Lee cake as luxury items, treat travel as a necessity. They just have to get away from it all. Lying under a palm tree all day with no cousins borrowing money, no phone ringing with bad news, and no Wall Street Journal every day to tell you how badly your stocks are doing, you can act like royalty and just pretend for a week...
...another grueling trial in Her Majesty's Service, this time a taste of commando assault training, the Tarzan and ropes course. "He doesn't lack for fitness," allowed a Royal Marines' spokesman. Prince Charles must have blanched, however, when commanded to negotiate a 20-ft. high tree-to-tree ropewalk. The whole adventure was clearly one he would just as soon never try again. Said he: "A most horrifying expedition...
...lines from Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree: "I'm comin' home, I've done my time; now I've got to know what is and isn't mine. If you still want me, tie a yellow ribbon round the ole oak tree...
Everyone includes his once sedate wife Irene, who has thrown George over for a young rock-'n'-roll star. A good part of the novel seems to take place in a tree house, where George secretly watches his wife and her hairy lover do their act in what was once Melish's own bedroom. From his preadolescent perch, George reviews his life like a man flipping the dial on a TV set. It is an apt literary device considering that George is a victim of the same attitudes that he has watered down and packaged for mass...
...Agassiz Community interpret the timing, the failure to notify the community in advance, and the brutal nature of the razing which left as an eyesore what was the most attractive garden in the area. The blackberry bushes, the raspberry bushes, the grape vines, the flowering vines, the pear tree--all have been flattened in an apparent scorched earth approach community relations and urban planning...