Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...television cameras were trained on her when she visited an aircraft carrier, and the sailors were later treated to an "Hour with Michele" over closed-circuit sets. After she spent a night in the field with the 4th Infantry Division near Pleiku, the soldiers nailed a sign to a tree: "Michele Slept Here." But last week Michele Ray, the red- haired, 29-year-old French beauty and ex-model, was nowhere to be found: she had been captured by the Viet Cong...
...impoverished state of Uttar Pradesh, campaigned there in the electoral district in which she herself will stand for re-election to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. Rarely speaking for more than ten minutes, she pleaded for support for the Congress Party. "Do not cut down a tree," she said, "when it is about to bear fruit...
Vegetation, too, suffers from polluted air-even in rural areas that until recently were believed to be out of the range of contamination. Sulphur dioxide causes leaves to dry out and bleach to a light tan or ivory color, kills the tips of grasses and of pine and fir-tree needles...
...production from south ern-Florida groves, the current crop will surpass last season's 100 million boxes (100 lbs. each) by 42 million. When the nine-month harvest ends in June, nearly 10 million boxes may be left to rot unsold. Oranges "on the tree" cost 75? a box to grow and last year brought a handsome $1.25. They are now going at a distress price of 35? a box, leaving growers with the prospect of a $50 million loss on the crop...
...economic reforms (currency devaluation, reduced price controls) designed to foster competition on the world market, a Communist since student days who escaped from an Italian concentration camp to join Tito's partisans in 1943 and marched with them to power; when his car skidded into a tree; in Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia...