Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandfather was a state attorney general, and an uncle was lieutenant governor. Schooled by his family in politics, Breathitt took a law degree at the University of Kentucky, served three terms in the legislature, once even helped Chandler in a gubernatorial campaign. "I tacked his signs up on every tree and post in Christian County," he recalls. "I carried box lunches. I have seen the light. All I ask is forgiveness...
Armed with a thick black notebook crammed with facts about Central America, President Kennedy prepared to fly this week to San Jose, the tree-shaded capital city on Costa Rica's central plateau. In the city's massive National Theater building, he was to spend three days in conference with six Central American Presidents, underlining again his expressed belief that Latin America is "the most critical area in the world today...
...reasoned that much of the metal would still be in the earth, since the early Greeks had primitive mining machinery and thus could dig only shallow mines. Xenarios finally homed in on a region known as Skouries (meaning "deposits of rust") which had the typical copper field's tree-barren look. By careful exploration, he located the ancient mines...
...used to be democratic dogma that revolutions were a good thing. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," said Jefferson. But the tree of liberty has fared poorly in the blood baths of this century. The grim example of the Bolshevik and other revolutions has caused political theorists to take a second look at revolutions...
Every year, when spring rains start the bluegrass sprouting, some high-strung U.S. race horse suddenly gets the attention usually reserved for movie stars and .400 hitters. Servants cater to his whims, columnists dog his hoofsteps, and genealogists start excavating the deepest roots of his family tree. He has a name-in 1961 it was Carry Back, last year it was Ridan-but to railbirds he is always known simply as Mr. Big: the favorite for the Kentucky Derby...