Word: treetopped
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NATURE designed man's body for a groundling's life, never more than treetop height above the earth's surface. In the upper reaches of the atmosphere or in the airless space beyond, man is as much out of his element as a mackerel marching across the Sahara. But unlike the mackerel, man is determined to transcend his environment. He reaches for the stars. A short half-century after the Wright brothers skittered over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk aircraft now on the designers' boards will fly at heights...
Rabbit's off-field capers also became a legend, even in baseball's rough and ready era. There was the time when the Boston police found Maranville and Jim Thorpe high in a treetop, yowling like banshees as they played Tarzan. There was the hot night in St. Louis when the Rabbit dived fully clothed into a fountain pool (though he always denied that he came gurgling to the surface with a goldfish clenched in his teeth). There was the time when he was playing in Brooklyn and staged a fake killing, complete with gunshot, that was daffy...
...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...