Word: tree
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Marie, Mich., spokesman for the 1,000-member Friends of Lizzie Borden. Each of Lizzie's friends commemorates the 78th anniversary of her parents' deaths in his own way. Rabe walks to the outskirts of Sault Sainte Marie carrying an ax, buries it in an unsuspecting oak tree, strolls back into town and gets drunk...
Appearing with the director of research at the Quaker Oats Co., Stare said that tree chart failed to evaluate the cereals "the way 95 per cent of breakfast cereals are consumed, that is, with milk...
...only phobia I have that I know about is heights," said Paul Newman. "I get clammy even watching somebody else up in a tree." So there was Newman near the top of a 90-ft. Oregon pine, hauling up a chain saw and hand ax. It took a film, of course, a version of Ken Kesey's novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, to induce the actor-acrophobe to do lumberjack stunts. He reported two weeks early in order to work on his timber technique with a real north-woods logger. "It takes a lot of acting," Newman admitted...
...York City's Parks Department had a problem: tree thieves. One night somebody pinched 80 rhododendrons along upper Fifth Avenue; last year thieves dug up and hauled away more than $55,000 worth of newly planted shrubs and trees. Now the Parks people rig each new planting with a chain shackled to a stake. The stake is dropped into the hole and turned horizontally. Then the plant roots are arranged around the stake, the hole is filled and the entire gadget concealed with earth. The Parks Department claims it has foiled at least one would-be thief. Workmen...
...Congress enacts a Christmas-tree bill for protectionists, foreign countries are sure to retaliate against U.S. exports. Ironically, the U.S. surplus of exports over imports rose by $300 million in the second quarter, to a $3.8 billion annual rate. Administration officials fear that friendly governments might even be angered enough to begin redeeming for U.S. gold the dollars that they now hold. Such a move could shake the world monetary system because the U.S. does not have anywhere near enough gold to buy back all the dollars that chronic balance of payments deficits have deposited abroad. The economic isolationism...