Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those cars with a low chassis. The wind caught his long scarf, wrapped it round the wheel, and in one savage second strangled him. The car skidded, buckled, reared against a tree, and was nothing but a heap of wreckage with one wheel spinning like a roulette wheel...slower, slower, slower in the silence...
...city to regulate the temperature of their air, make night a flimsy daylight with electricity and fill them with synthetic food. The city is like a tottering superstructure of tin and sticks and kite paper where the most anyone can do in a life-time is add another Christmas-tree bauble onto one of its projections. Below this shaky construction, what it rests on, is the solidity of earth and the natural elements, where the poet, the gypsies and the blacks stand...
...dead elm tree removed from the yard a short time ago was Harvard's latest concession to a disease which threatens to deracinate all of New England's staeliest shade trees. Since its discovery in Massachusetts in 1941, Dutch Elm Disease has killed a recorded 50,000 of the state's American elms, and probably as many more died unnoticed or unrecorded...
Named after the Dutch pathologist who first described it, the disease is caused by a fungus, Ceratostomella ulmi, which is introduced into the trees by an unattractive European elm bark beetle, Scolytus multistriatus. Toxins and gummosis produced by the fungus in the tree's water-conducting vessels may kill it in six months. Once disease is detected, death may be retarded, somewhat as in cancer, by removing more and more of the affected parts. Widespread use of preventative measures, such as burning old or dying trees to kill the beetles, or spraying and feeding the trees to discourage inhabitation, have...
...Leaf. In Madison, Wis., the State Bureau of Personnel offers a $325-a-month summer job: "Shade Tree Inspector...