Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Nov. 26, you have an article on the mongoose in which you state that the mongoose cannot climb a tree...
...goats and she-goats and rams of the breed of Bashan. My barns should burst their doors with plenty, and all my paths drop fatness. My face should be smeared with the oil of rejoicing. . . .My feet should be dipped in butter; I should sit under my fig-tree with my heel on the neck of my enemy, and my eyes stand out with fatness; I should flourish as the Cedar of Lebanon that bringeth forth fruit...
...Perry County, Ky., a candidate for sheriff thumbed a banjo and sang a long ballad about a cabin boy on the ship Golden Willow Tree. The cabin boy had been promised the captain's daughter in marriage if he would sink a rival ship, The Roverie. The cabin boy "bored nine holes" in the Roverie and then...
...Hawaii, where mongooses were introduced in 1883, the mammal-bird-insect balance was already out of kilter. Five species of rats were ruining sugar plantations. The mongooses got some of the rats, but the rest learned to live in the trees, where mongooses cannot climb. The rats got the tree-nesting birds, while the frustrated mongooses made life dangerous for ground birds...
...plum tree flooded with white birds, the clean curve of a plow as it comes dripping from the earth, the tuck-tuck of mah-jongg tablets, the faltering steps of a blind man on a moonlit night, Chungking in the mist, the whistle of unseen leaves-all these, in Payne's record, are as ineluctably part of China's life as the suffering, corruption, brutality and terror bred by foreign and domestic wars...