Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Woman is given to man to bear children; she is therefore his property, as the tree is the gardener...
...have long made the U.S. housing industry a nightmare, Johnson suggested a commission to consider uniform standards. He urged matching federal grants for the construction of city water and sewerage systems, direct financial aid for cities trying to acquire land for future development, special grants to cities for landscaping, tree planting, park improvement "and other measures to bring beauty and nature to the city dweller." He also asked for continuation of the public-housing program, at the rate of 35,000 new units a year, and an increase in the federal outlay for urban renewal to $750 million annually...
...Afrikaner farmers in sports shirts and veldskoen; others were naked Kalahari bushmen, whose ways have not changed since they learned to paint on rocks 15,000 years ago. At the polling place-in some cases a tidy brick schoolhouse, in others a thatch-roofed hut beneath a twisted mopane tree-each voter received a handful of col ored, coin-size counters representing the candidates of five political parties. Cynics called it "the tiddlywinks poll," but when all the cardboard disks were counted last week, Bechuanaland had wisely and overwhelmingly elected as its first Prime Minister an African leader with just...
...went overnight from civilian to captain in the Army Air Corps Reserve, causing an outbreak of "I Want To Be a Captain Too" clubs, spent the war flying photo-reconnaissance missions. During his remarkably checkered business career, he has been a news commentator in Minneapolis, a Christmas-tree grower in New York, a rancher in Colorado, and a businessman in Havana. He is now married to wife No. 5, Phoenix Socialite Patricia Whitehead, whom...
...ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. Thanks to the lively comic vision of Novelist Humphrey (Home from the Hill), the Ordways of East Texas, living and dead, make a family tree of Faulknerian dimensions...