Word: tree
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...Until the number of squirrels exceeds 450, the number the mountain can support, they will be in jeopardy of extinction," says Warshall. "The squirrels' population has fallen due to a bad cone crop. The extreme fluxuation in their food supply due to tree cutting may cause their population to crash...
...whole niche of the red squirrel is to bury the closed cones for later," says Warshall. "The cold microclimate under the tree canopy insures the seed cones remain closed. If the temperature under the tree heats up, the cones open, and other animals can get the seeds...
...dutifully greeted the elders present, wandered over the few acres and through the barn out back, then lounged under an old hackberry tree. At noon dinner he loaded up his plate with fried chicken and mashed potatoes and took a seat with a cousin on the back porch. Wes cleaned his plate. His cousin did not. Aunt Ida came inspecting. She spied the wasted food, stopped and delivered a stern dose of family doctrine: "Waste not, want not." Right then another remarkable career may have been started through the mixture of Eisenhower family values and the ethic of that prairie...
...when Ike was denied the right to go trick-or-treating on Halloween with his brothers, his temper overwhelmed him. He ran outside and pummeled a tree until his small fists were torn and bleeding. He went to bed and sobbed for an hour. His mother came in, salved and bandaged his hands, then explained the futility of uncontrolled anger: "He that conquereth his own soul is greater than he who taketh a city." Much later Ike claimed that was "one of the most valuable moments of my life." Five times in 1954 when he was President, there were emotional...
...member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat -- of the Left." After nearly a year of debate, Italy's Communists joined their East European counterparts last week by adopting a new name, the Democratic Party of the Left, and a fresh insignia: a spreading tree, with the old hammer-and-sickle symbol reduced and planted at the roots...