Word: trees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where in a green grove up the hill in Arlington, John Kennedy's grave looks out over the city and the river. The moon, the slender candles, the eternal flame at John's memorial?47 feet away and the floodlights laved Robert Kennedy's resting place beneath a magnolia tree. It was 11 o'clock, the first nighttime burial at Arlington in memory. There was no playing of taps, no rifle volley. After a brief and simple service, the coffin flag was folded into a triangle for presentation to Ethel, and the band played America the Beautiful...
...Churchill had one of the most difficult roles in history. Born in 1911 in the year his father, Winston Churchill, became First Lord of the Admiralty, Randolph keenly felt the overpowering effects of his father's greatness. "When you are living under the shadow of a great oak tree," he once reflected, "the small sapling does not perhaps receive enough sunshine." Last week, at 57 still in the shadow, Randolph Churchill died...
...share issue at $20; last week it was selling at $43.50. Superior Surgical Manufacturing Co., a textile firm that makes white garments for both doctors and bakers, has climbed from $11 to $18 over the past month. Sun-Glo Products Corp., a producer of Christmas-tree ornaments, has nearly doubled in price, from $3.50 to $6 a share...
Taste me, a rotten tree...
...Focus of the college experience," come now. Beginning to sound like another Dunlop Report. Big words are cheap this year. Where's the nittygritty beneath all the verbiage? Underneath the asparagus tree written in the tea leaves I see the words: JESUS SAVES. So, appropriately, I pray to be saved, to be delivered from the tedium of the lecture halls, to be thrown out into the real world where real things happens to fleshandblood people. But soft, a voice harkens unto me: SON, FORGET IT. "It ain't so great to be on the outside," the logic flows, "stay awhile...