Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drug inspector in New York. At first Cole refused to reply to the charges, labeling them as "an invasion of my private rights." He quickly changed his mind, asked for an administrative hearing (which was denied), took his case to the courts, and went to work as a tree surgeon. That was three years ago. Last week, in a 6-to-3 decision that was certain to involve it in even more controversy (see box), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Cole's favor, ordered him reinstated with back pay (estimated at nearly $13,000). In so ruling...
...collected them, 500 or more at a time, ordered them on pain of death to close their eyes and listen to the voice of the Almighty-a strange, whistling noise. Spies from a nearby Roman Catholic mission risked opening their eyes and reported that Lenshina merely stepped behind a tree and blew a whistle...
...goner. To reassure critics of integration, Author Fisher takes pains to show that Squaw Sunday, princess of the Blackfeet, is really white. Covered as she is with bear grease and vermillion, she smells pretty bad. But to a man who can survive temperature cold enough to split a tree and "mosquitoes as big as owls," this is by no means a deterrent...
...headquarters at 815 Sixteenth Street. The next day Ike wrote a godspeed message to departing Indonesian President Sukarno, hoped Sukarno "found what you sought in America as a state of mind and as the center of an idea." That afternoon he squeezed in 18 holes of golf at Burning Tree Country Club, that evening joined ten congressional leaders around the Cabinet table for a solemn 80-minute discussion on the foreign-aid bill (see below...
...this first-novel winner of the Houghton Mifflin award, Author Burdick gives a reverse twist to the cozy U.S. sociological convention that coarse, conservative fathers produce sensitive, nonconformist sons. It is a study of Mike Freesmith, whose father was a radical so militant he once smashed the family Christmas tree into bourgeois smithereens. To contrast his old man, Mike determines to become a "big wheeler and dealer." He starts rolling as a clean-limbed, sexually limber nihilist on a surfboard off the coast of South ern California. He is supposed to be getting an education; instead he is educating...