Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue you mentioned a 60-year-old Philadelphia woman who got a skin rash after gathering cashew nuts in Ceylon. When it is picked from the tree, the cashew nut is covered with a hard tough shell that has a thin layer of black oil underneath. This oil is quite corrosive to the skin. It is in the shell, however, which is left in India -in fact is used for fuel-and is not in the kernel that...
...went on using a salvaged bucket to melt snow (by body warmth) for drinking water. Every day she took pains to stand up and do a few exercises. Protected by several layers of clothing against the cold and sleet, she ticked off the days with lipstick on a nearby tree. But shock and exposure began to tell. After 19 days on Ferris Mountain, only twelve scarlet daubs were on the tree...
...fantastic lineage to claim for just another wacky art colony. Nevertheless, a truth is suggested here-a bitter bite from the orange on the tree of knowledge. The vision of an earthly paradise is an ancient delusion. The trouble is not the earth but man. Miller's real estate is magnificent, and the photographs of the Big Sur country are wonderful, but alas, the personnel...
Elsewhere in The Netherlands, Architect Breuer was finding tougher going. His design for a modern U.S. embassy on the linden-tree-shaded Lange Voorhout in The Hague had the conservative Hagenaars up in arms. The building's slab fagade, with its overall pattern and trapezoid-shaped windows topped with matching panels of polished grey granite, looked to one of them like "a sponge cake," and, worst of all, had a suspicious resemblance to Rotterdam's new Bijenkorf...
Nervous Type. In Wauwatosa, Wis., Marshall Esperseth bounced his car off two trees, knocked over three trolley poles, sheared off a light pole, flattened two parking signs, smashed to a halt against a third tree, confided to arresting officers that he felt shaken...