Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...packed series of appointments dominated by men whose chief concern was the struggle against world Communism. At noontime on the day before Christmas, however, he temporarily abandoned his office with the avowed hope of spending a good, family holiday. That evening, as he helped to decorate the Eisenhower tree and fill his grandchildren's stockings, there seemed no reason why his hope shouldn't come true. But Christmas morning he awoke to the unsettling news that Stalin, through the New York Times, had expressed willingness to meet with...
...then, realizing that he may have indicated he was a Stevenson man, added hastily "in a way." Replied Ike, laughing at Krumm's discomfort: "I hate to go, too-in a way." Then he and Mamie went home to join the rest of the family around the Christmas tree. Obviously preoccupied, Ike paced about uneasily for a while before he settled down to playing with Grandson Dwight David's new electric train (see NEWS IN PICTURES...
...Fehlauer quickly laid his wife down and slammed the door in the soldiers' faces. A neighbor, hearing angry Russian voices, called the West Berlin police. A patrol car swung into the Edelhofdamm, and out leaped Patrolman Herbert Bauer, his Browning drawn. The Russians took cover behind an oak tree outside the apartment house. One of the Russians dropped Bauer with four submachine gun slugs. Over his dead body that Christmas morning, police and Russians fought for 20 minutes until the carbines of the West's riot squad drove the Russians back into their own zone...
...plane also stepped a tall, slim girl, her red-rimmed eyes hidden by sun goggles. Africa watched the Black Maria drive off with the lover she would probably never see again. Then, through the airfield restaurant windows, she caught sight of a gaily lighted tree. "It's Christmas week, isn't it?" she said...
...Dearborn, Mich, next spring, was exhibited in Washington. Among them was a letter written in the childish scrawl of his son, the late Edsel Ford, and dated 1901, two years before the first model T went into production: "Dear Santa Claus: I haven't had any Christmas tree in four years and I have broken my trim-ings [sic] and I want some roller skates and I want a book and I can't think of anything else. I want you to think of something else." Andre Marty, 65-year-old Marxist bullyboy of French Communism...