Word: trees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...savagery of the criticism aimed at him. Early in his presidency, he had declared: "I want to do only one thing in this job. I want to unite this country." But a few years later, during a tour of the ranch, he showed some friends a great tree and sadly told them: "This is the tree I expect to be buried under. When my grandchildren see this tree, I want them to think of me as the man who saved Asia and Viet Nam and who did something for the Negroes of this country. Yet I have lost popularity...
Auto racing's famed Jimmy Clark died yesterday in a high speed crash at Hockenheim, Germay. Clark was killed instantly when his Lotus-Cosworth Formula II racer flipped off the rain-soaked course and crashed into a tree...
...hailed her as "someone who has helped us with the gold drain." Peggy had, indeed, as the only American to bring home an Olympic gold medal from Grenoble. And now a properly appreciative L.B.J. added a decoration of his own, reaching up to pluck a magnolia blossom from a tree and pinning it on Peggy's dress...
...entered in the Nebraska contest two weeks earlier, and Nebraska is solidly Nixon country. Though Rockefeller preached party unity at every turn, he admitted only reluctantly that he would support Nixon if he were "the Republican nominee." Rocky still maintained that he was willing to "answer any tree and meaningful call," should the party demand his candidacy, and some wishful-thinking Republicans argued that Nixon might yet falter, giving Rocky a chance in Miami Beach next August. Only a true believer would...
...case of the rescue squad arriving barely in time. The international monetary system was like a man who falls off a cliff and lands on a tree on the way down-bruised and shaken, but alive and susceptible to recovery. More auspiciously, the bankers' decision gave new urgency to the hitherto torpid efforts to turn the creaking system of international exchange into something better fit for today's world...