Word: tree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nation unless he is tamed by virtue. While regiments of armed men scour the hills for Toshiro, a deceptively jolly priest (Kuroemon Onoe) and a frightened girl (Kaoru Yachigusa) ensnare him with kindness. Brought home, Toshiro is trussed up like a maniac and suspended from a tall tree. Each morning and evening the priest inquires if his spirit is broken, and Toshiro answers with howling curses. The girl frees the prisoner, but the wily priest traps Toshiro again, this time locks him in a tower to learn docility in solitary confinement and wisdom from the ancient books of Japan. Freed...
...beginning of getting," a grownup tells Lovejoy. "Then why don't people get things?'' the girl asks. "Because they don't want hard enough," answers the grownup. What Lovejoy wants more than anything in the world is a garden of her own, as rare in Catford Street as a tree in Brooklyn. By hook and by crook she starts one, but a gang of the neighborhood's teen-age toughs stomps it out. The leader of the gang, a rough-hewn Irish Tom Sawyer by the name of Tip Malone, makes his private peace with Lovejoy, and pretty soon...
...aimless dialogue between a fifteen-year-old boy and an elderly woman who, for some unexplained reason, comes to the boy's house to see his father. The two discuss a wide and wild range of subjects, from mice than can spell to the boy's one-word novel, Tree. Saroyan here probably tried to show how difficult it is for the boy, and perhaps man in general, to communicate. But the demonstration sinks into confusion...
...Made plans to press a button in Gettysburg on Dec. 18, lighting the national Christmas tree in Washington, and to return to the White House (probably until April) about...
...date mentioned by Roberts coincided with rumors reported at the Bindery which is located between the Buildings and Grounds, departments and Tree-Land. Employees at the Bindery mentioned possibilities that their office would also be vacated by September, 1956 and that they would be relocated "somewhere across the River...