Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thereupon he began barking up the Tennessean's tree. One day at noontime, Stevenson made his way along four blocks of Los Angeles' bustling Eighth Street, stopped strangers on the sidewalk, reached up to shake hands with truck drivers who had stopped for traffic lights, dropped in at a barbershop, paused at a fruit stand to buy an apple, which he munched as he moved on. In the garment district he crawled up on the back of a truck and spoke to the crowd, then sat at a diner counter and had a corned beef on rye, with...
...drives up, addresses the commander (Leslie Nielsen) in cultured English, invites him to visit the planet's only human inhabitant, a mad scientist (Walter Pidgeon). This Dr. Morbius, sole survivor of a party of colonists sent from Earth 20 years before, greets his visitors coldly beside a lavender tree, and reluctantly asks them into his villa, a sort of ranch house with ailerons, where the robot synthesizes a snack and serves...
...Ridder boys." The eight Ridder grandsons-who all help to run the papers, have already sired a dozen sons of their own. To help strangers sort out the clan, grandson Herman H., 47, president of the company, carries an oversized business card with a family tree diagrammed neatly on the back...
...Hard Way. In Dayton, Charles Balke was arrested after he cracked into three garages, rammed into the side of a house, careened across three lawns, ran down a rosebush, bounced off a tree, crunched into a parked convertible-all in an attempt to put his car in his garage...
...farm bill, introducing more than a hundred amendments, rejecting 31 and adopting 21. At the end of last week, with some 60 amendments to go, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson looked at the result and said: "This bill gets more and more like a Christmas tree; there's something on it for nearly everyone...