Word: tree
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...surface; the result can be a brief but noticeable cooling of global climate. After the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, for instance, unusually cool weather was reported in many parts of the world for several years. The evidence is still preserved in the annual growth rings of old trees. Only recently, scientists at the University of Arizona's tree-ring laboratory discovered disturbed rings in California trees, dating back to 1884, that showed the trees had experienced a hard freeze that year. The scientists strongly suspect that the unusually cold California weather was linked to Krakatoa's eruption...
...gray plum tree on the brownish rice paper is twisty and knuckled with age. Plum trees regenerate themselves each year, and here the new sprouts burst like porcupine quills from the bark. The brush strokes have an extraordinary intensity-not so much delicacy as martial precision: one imagines the brush slashing down and up like a sword as it described the pair of sharply angular branches that project to the left of the tree. And so it probably did; for the painter, Kaihō Yūshō (1533-1615) was the son of a warrior family, raised...
...tsuba, lending many works which are inaccessible even to the Japanese: these registered National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties have never left Japan before. They include such extraordinary objects as the sliding doors that Kanō Eitoku, aged 23, decorated with a design of a crane and a tree for the Jukō-in temple in Kyoto, circa 1566, a youthful achievement that invites comparison to the 25-year-old Masaccio's frescoes in Florence; one of the grandest specimens of calligraphic painting in Japanese history, Konoe Nobutada's Six Principles for the Composition of Poems...
...capitalistic enterprise. He does not call this imperialism and cites such actions as the encouragement of Colombian beef production to the detriment of American cattle interests. Fisher justifies the American presence in an underdeveloped country: "You can say that we ought to leave the Colombian under the palm tree because he's happy there. But I don't think he's happy--he's missing things, and he knows it, and I think it's good to help...
...city itself, the daily terror is the constant expectation of a rocket attack. The Chinese-built 107-mm. missiles are wobbly, unguided weapons at best, which the insurgents fire from metal tubes propped up by two sticks or the fork of a small tree. They are a barbarous form of warfare, because when they hit the ground or touch a treetop they turn into thousands of jagged, 2-in. shrapnel fragments. Innocent women and children going about their daily chores seem to be their most common victims...