Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...autobiography,* she exulted: "Wintertime! When zero stands at 25 or 30, when we cannot deny the pleasure of skating till we have bumped heads, and bleedy noses, and the ice is like glass. Oh what joy and pleasure as we get together, to go for the Christmas tree, what air castles we build as we slide down the hill, who can rebuild what we see on that Christmas tree. Oh, those days of childhood...
...California's Riverside Experimental Station. He and fellow workers have developed two new double-barreled insecticides that attack pests from inside plants. Called Systox and OMPA, they are a by-product of German wartime efforts to produce a nerve gas. If sprayed only on a tree trunk, Systox and OMPA work their way inside so neatly that they protect leaves that grow after the spraying is done. They seem to leave little harmful residue in fruit or vegetable crops...
...plan for a "magic quadrangle"-a court enclosed by a wall of varying heights on which would be colored mosaics representing scenes and characters from the Pinocchio story. Sicilian-born Sculptor Greco's entry was a tall semi-abstraction showing the Good Fairy pulling Pinocchio from a tree trunk with a great bird hovering above them. When cast in bronze, Greco's figure will stand a little away from Venturi's magic quadrangle on the grounds of Collodi's stateliest 18th century villa...
...middle of a gloomy, unheated factory building in Yokohama, a group of Japanese and American businessmen solemnly lined up last week behind a white-robed Shinto priest and faced a bright orange-colored power shovel. Waving branches of the sakaki (sacred tree) before a makeshift altar, the priest intoned: "On this felicitous occasion, we pray for the continued magnanimity of the gods in showing favor to this undertaking...
...books by Giovanni Verga, an Italian writer who died in 1922, still contained lessons for any fiction writer. The House by the Medlar Tree and Little Novels of Sicily were powerful stories about Sicilian peasants whose harshly tragic existence could not destroy their stubborn dignity. Another famed Italian brought out his first novel in eleven years; A Handful of Blackberries proved that ex-Communist Ignazio Silone knows where the rot of Communism lies and still has enough of his old novelist's skill to expose...