Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first official engagement after leaving the hospital: a round of golf at the nearby Burning Tree Country Club...
...family name was Bjorkegren, the first syllable of which is pronounced Burke. Its Swedish meaning is "limb of a birch tree," and it traces to Burke's great-grandfather, who worked for the Swedish Ministry of Forestry...
...army of about 15,000 police, plainclothesmen, helmeted Gardes Republicaines and firemen were deployed over Paris to help keep the peace. Along the route of march from the railroad station to the Elysee Palace, where the visitors were to stay, Parisian firemen stood watch on rooftops, and every chestnut tree shaded a cop or a detective. Public sewers and private houses along the way had been combed by security men, and wooden barriers, well guarded by the police, had been set up to hold the welcoming crowds out of bomb-throwing range. Even Tito himself was impressed. "Things...
...that it led nowhere. Then he attached himself to five ascetics and fasted, until "when I touched my belly I felt my backbone through it." But this, too. proved a spiritual dead end, and at last, after six years of experiment, he sat down beneath a Bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya in northeastern India and determined not to move until he had plumbed the secret of existence. After 49 days it came-what Buddhists call The Enlightenment. "I knew," said Buddha, " 'rebirth' has been destroyed, the higher life has been led; what had to be done has been...
...clock one morning last week when a car carrying four bluejackets plunged over an embankment and hit a tree in Arlington, Va. Two of the sailors were scarcely hurt, but two died with broken necks...