Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...almost unknown to them-every spare moment belongs to the kids. On Sunday nights the family frequently eats supper at the Columbia Country Club, the one place in Washington where the arrival of the Nixons does not set off a stir. Nixon helped build the girls a tree house in the backyard, and he and Pat are faithful members of the Sidwell Friends School P.T.A. "Even though I'm gone a lot, I concentrate on the girls when I'm home," says Pat, "and I think I give them more attention than most of your bridge-playing mothers...
...Blunder." Last year irrepressible Uncle Dickie privately published a book on his family tree claiming that until the Queen went through the formal process of adopting the name of Windsor in April of 1952, she had reigned two months as a Mountbatten, and therefore the House of Mountbatten historically "takes its place among the reigning houses of the United Kingdom." Last week, when Her Majesty announced her "will and pleasure," the press could not shake off the unpleasant conviction that Uncle Dickie was behind it all. "A victory for Prince Philip and his uncle!" growled the Daily Herald...
Crusty. Near Olive Branch, Miss., hanging helplessly from the top of an oak tree after parachuting out of a disabled Air Force plane, Airman Third Class Maxwell S. Prothro pleaded with a staring farm wife to bring rescuers, was told: "I'm busy. I'm cooking bread...
...logs of sandalwood have already arrived at Luangprabang, the gifts of rich and poor alike. Each log bears the name and address of the sender, and will be piled on a hilltop in October to serve as a sweet-smelling funeral pyre for the dead King. When the royal tree is at last found, the news will be spread by couriers, bronze drums, temple gongs, buffalo-hide tom-toms and by telegraph...
Less than two months remain before the rainy season, beginning in April, will make further searching impossible. But no one in Laos doubts that the royal sandalwood will be found. After all, the tree has been growing through the centuries just for this moment and this royal purpose-to enclose in its sun-yellowed heartwood the body of its predestined King...