Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warm half-hour over, Dwight Eisenhower sighed, "Maybe we need air conditioning," and whisked away to the Burning Tree Club's fairways for a round with two of his favorite golfers, Gene Sarazen and Ben Hogan...
...chest, the traditional Asian "joining of palms" to express respect and appreciation, John Foster Dulles whispered to the President: "They don't shake hands in Thailand." Said Ike: "I know, I know. But we do." He gave Phibun a hearty handshake, then took him out to Burning Tree and beat him in a game of golf...
...soldier often feels a strange disappointment when he sees his first battlefield. A barn still stands with cattle waiting to be fed ; a tree is green and straight against the sky; hollyhocks are in bloom. Later he realizes what has happened to the people...
...measure of the artists' accuracy appears in University Hall's ivy which follows the pattern of the living vine. At the rear of the Hall, the Yard's lone pine tree stands among the familiar elms, oaks and maples. Both the positions and the species of the model's 2,500 trees were mapped by student workers...
...tenderly to his sweetheart ("May you sleep as sweetly as a water lily on a pond"), is looking into the hearts of others-the cough-racked Finnish soldier riding a blacked-out bus near the front, the old Danish widow clinging to life by keeping a dried-up Christmas tree by her bedside. Kim joins the Danish underground in the war's last year, is caught and condemned to death...