Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last Thursday 174 men hung their brass identity disks in the lamphouse of Cumberland No. 2 colliery and went below the quiet, tree-shaded streets of Springhill, Nova Scotia (pop. 7,000) into the deepest mine in North America. Before the shift ended, more than half were trapped underground in Canada's worst mine disaster in 44 years. At week's end twelve men were known dead, another 81 missing and presumed dead...
Golden Eggs. But the suburbs of Paris have slowly closed in on the Flea Market. Bulldozers appeared on the old Saint-Ouen parade ground. Four big housing developments rose 14 stories above the plain. Schools, children's playgrounds, sport fields, tree-lined avenues, a hospital annex are planned-and the Flea Market...
...handing out holy medals, even exchanging his white silk skull cap with some visitor who had brought one for the purpose. The New York Times's late Anne O'Hare McCormick described him thus: "He is straight, strong, taut as a watch spring, thin as a young tree, but tranquil and tranquilizing -a Gothic figure whose vestments fall about him in Gothic folds, whose long hands are raised in Gothic gestures, both stiff and graceful...
...slow to arrive at decisions, he partly made up for it by a relentless, austere capacity for hard work. Even at his summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius had a mania about wasting a second. Sitting under a red umbrella in the shade of a huge ilex tree (he could not bear strong sunlight), or walking briskly in his shaded garden, he kept his nose buried in documents he was studying. During his solitary, silent and frugal meals, Pius listened to the news broadcasts, but so chary was he of an unnecessary word that once when he sneezed...
...this, Stagg remains an active practitioner of the cult of physical fitness. He goes through a routine of bending and stretching exercises on awakening. He does pushaways, knee bends and chinning on an old fig tree in his yard, jogs around a small course that he has laid out from fig to apricot to pear-tree stump (about 100 yards at a time). He cuts his lawn with a hand mower, rakes his own leaves. His blood pressure is 135 over 90. The systolic reading is low for any man over 65; the diastolic is near the upper limit...