Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That man is truly ethical," he has written, "who shatters no ice crystal as it sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from a tree, cuts no flower. . . . The farmer who has mown down a thousand flowers in his meadow to feed his cows must be careful on his way home not to strike off in heedless pastime the head of a single flower by the roadside, for he thereby commits a wrong against life without being under the pressure of necessity...
...What does the wreath have to do with the tree? . . . It's second for Santa Claus . . . first for me . . . Santa Claus comes by sleigh, but I prefer an auto...
...Second for Santa Claus, first for me, thirteen for wreath, seven for tree. Bring me an auto, a book and a ball, and I'll say 'Merry Christmas' in spring, not in fall...
...suburbs and walls of Hofei bristle with defense works Chinese style. Mud-brick pillboxes, screened with briars and entwining tree branches, flank the gates at every compass point. Behind the barricades is fear and hate...
...buffalo so vast that the prairie trembled with the incessant roaring of the bulls. The men made nets of brush and in a few minutes scooped over 500 fish from the river. High in the mountains, the Indian guides did not build campfires, but set fire to a huge tree that blazed up in the darkness, a mighty beacon glaring over the apparent top of the world, thousands of miles from civilization. The wilderness shook the sense of reality...