Word: treeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...juries, prosecutors and at the original Watergate trial, was free after serving seven months of his ten-month to four-year term. He was reunited with his family in Bethesda, Md., where his wife Gail, in echo of a folk ballad, tied a yellow ribbon to a front-yard tree...
...with the application of equal dollops of the fat of a lion, a hippopotamus, a crocodile and a serpent. "Ashes of little frogs, applyed suddenly, cureth the Fall of Hair," promised another early recipe. Through the receding centuries, man has tried to treat the bane of baldness with elm-tree bark, watercress, onions, creosote, cholesterol and cortisone...
...Everybody's, a Manhattan secondhand shop, clerks are becoming used to hordes of shoppers stampeding through the doors each Thursday-the day a fresh supply of items goes on sale. Business has been so good lately at the Junior League Bargain Tree in Portland, Ore., that the store closed down one Saturday for lack of merchandise. At the flea market on the grounds of Miami's Tropicaire Drive-In Theater, stalls are booked an unprecedented two weeks in advance. The latest trend in shopping, apparently, is the shift to thrift...
...squad is Mark Lonetto, a 6 ft. 4 in. forward, who as a sophomore has been hitting for about an eight point average. Lonetto joins the rest of the judges on Penn's bench when Daly literally throws in six feet and eleven inches worth of Henry Johnson. The tree-like Johnson frequently lowers his boughs on rival players, and averages more fouls than points in his well-meaning play under the boards...
...political evil hardly scratches the surface of life here, neither do Fellini's large doses of insanity. Uncle Teo climbs a tree and refuses to come down until ordered to do so by a midget nun who will have none of his nonsense. A peddler claims that one night a diminutive arab sheik checked into the grand hotel with his harem and invited him up for a tiring evening. Even the priests are allowed to join Fellini's beatific vision. Foolish as the churchmen are, Aurelio's termagant wife turns out to be the genuine image of sainthood...