Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Amidst the dry, gum-tree scrub of Rum Jungle, 60 miles inland from the Timor Sea, miners clad only in boots and shorts drilled uranium out of soft slate. At Woomera, where the waterless South Australian plain stretches endlessly off to the horizon, romantically named drones and missiles-Jindiviks, Blue Streaks and Black Knights-soared over the free world's largest land rocket range. In beach-girt Sydney, schoolteachers and tram conductors exchanged stock market tips, and in stately Adelaide, where Australia's first major Festival of the Arts was in full swing, T. S. Eliot...
...seller: the great-great-great-grandson of the Andrews couple, who posed under a tree that is still alive. The ostensible buyer: Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, but U.S. Oilman Paul Getty hovered at Agnew's side, looking grimly determined...
...clever student, and Phineas laughs his way to a C average, but Gene takes no comfort from his crumb of superiority. His friend's perfection galls him. Worse, Phineas has begun to prod Gene to follow him in nonsensical feats of daring. The athlete fearlessly climbs a tall tree by a riverbank, walks the length of a limb, and leaps far out into safe, deep water. Gene queasily repeats the stunt, and bitterly resents the compulsion that makes him do it. Soon Gene comes to suspect that everything Phineas does is calculated to humiliate...
Innocence. One night Phineas has a new idea-a double leap. The boys climb the tree. Phineas balances jauntily on the limb, and Gene grimly clutches the trunk.. Abruptly the athlete falls. In the minutes that follow, as Phineas is carried to the infirmary with a shattered leg, ¶Gene tries to shut away a terrifying fact: in an instant of hatred, he had jounced the limb his friend was standing...
...summer ends, and the war comes nearer. The crippled Phineas returns to Devon School, announces gaily that the war is a fraud, and begins training the tormented Gene for the 1944 Olympics. But what happened in the tree obtrudes ike the maimed athlete's dragging leg. In a weird kangaroo court, even Phineas is made to accept the truth. He staggers out of the room, breaks his leg in another fall, and this time dies. "My war ended before I ever put on a uniform," Gene reflects. "I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed...