Word: treetop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from distant trees, but caught only glimpses of the sniffly athletes as they jounced and bounced through shoeless track and field contests. The peekers noted that even bathing caps were ruled out of the 50-yd. breaststroke event. But until President Fankhauser saw fit to announce the results, no treetop spectator could know who had won what. Not even programs would help, because it was difficult to tell one unnumbered performer from another...
...Treetop. At week's end, the couple drove 100 miles into the foothills of snowclad Mount Kenya for a four-day respite at Sagana Lodge, their wedding present from Kenya Colony, built of cedar and encircled by thick forest. They also planned a night's stay at nearby famed Treetops, where wealthy Europeans climb 35 feet into the air into a small, flimsy suite perched on massive figtree branches for a hushed, all-night watch on the unsuspecting elephants, rhinos, monkeys and baboons cavorting below beside a big forest pool. Though a barbed-wire barricade encircling the foot...
...imperial household with top diplomatic honors. To celebrate the peace treaty, Emperor Hirohito invited General Matthew Ridgway and his wife to a royal luncheon, at which Empress Nagato set the conversational tone with a little story. The day the treaty was signed, a white crane had alighted in a treetop on the palace grounds. The Japanese took this, she said, as a good omen for peace...
Last week, slashing a right-of-way for a power line from Bonneville Dam, lumberjacks brought down a ponderosa pine. Tied by a shriveled leather thong, high in the treetop was the answer to the mystery of Kamela: a bronze cattle bell, inscribed with the date 1878. It carried the words "Saignelegier"-"Chiantel"-"Fondeur." Its clapper was worn smooth by years of gentle tinkling. The people of Kamela guessed that a pioneer had tied it to a sapling that grew into a towering pine...
Spotters can neither see nor hear bombers at extreme altitudes, which is radar's job. The spotters will specialize on attackers trying to slip, perhaps at treetop level, through gaps between the radar stations. Such attacks, says the Air Force's Air Defense Command, are a very real danger. Once a group of bombers passes the radars that watch the coasts and northern border of the U.S., it might "get loose" in the interior. Unless it should blunder into the field of a radar, the defending jet fighters would not know where to look...