Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrests. His hardfisted record earned him the nickname "Iron Sicilian." Premiership. Out of office for five months after De Gasperi's last Cabinet, Scelba emerged as a prospect for Premier in early 1954. To a reporter who came to his office, just as a forlorn lemon tree on the terrace began to bear fruit, Scelba remarked: "I didn't think this lemon tree would ever blossom, but ..." A few days later, he was Premier. He has survived for 14 months through nine votes of confidence (winning margin only last week: 67 votes) despite his shaky Christian Democrat coalition...
...week before), Dodge and Miller filed a loud demurrer when Fellow Alumnus Beck failed to make the team. In the end, Beck was chosen as an alternate. Skiing being what it is, the odds are that between now and next winter one of his teammates will plow into a tree. He still has a good chance of racing at the Olympics...
...will still depend on planes to get it to the right place, at the right time, under the right circumstances. Some missiles, like artillery shells, will be duds, and the enemy bombers will fly over. Even clever missiles may be fooled, e.g., a shower of shiny metal like Christmas tree tinsel can be as distracting to a radar hunter as an alley cat to a beagle...
...Great Trek of the Boers from Cape Town to the fertile valleys of the interior; 5) the war dance of 3,000 Zulus and their attack on a wagon ring; 6) a savage fight between two men armed with bullwhips; 7) a cloudburst, during which a huge tree is felled by lightning; 8) the gruesome amputation of a leg; 9) another formal ball, this time in a South African mansion; 10) a battle royal in a mining town...
...left off the new roster of Washington's Burning Tree golf club until red-faced officials discovered the printer's error and hurriedly had another roster printed...