Word: tree
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Actually, only one tree usually accompanies the band, but some graduated bark came back for the occasion. The real tree, Stanford sophomore Judy Mischel, says being a tree isn't easy. "I'm supposed to skip around and just act crazy but I get molested." Fifty people wanted the job of being tree for a year, but Judy got it because she was the first to show...
...decades before life comes back to the mountain's highest slopes. Yet lower down, in what looks like a totally forbidding, colorless world, life, incredibly, is returning. Deer tracks have been spotted on otherwise barren slopes; new growths of ferns and skunk cabbage are poking through the ash. Tree sprouts are "coming up beautifully," says John Allen, 72, geology professor emeritus at Portland State University...
Poole was driving alone shortly after midnight August 24 when her car failed to turn and hit a tree in her hometown of Portola Valley, Calif. She died three days later...
...retreat from the old dogmatism is welcome, any hint of improvisation. "Gray is all theory," wrote Goethe, "but green is the golden tree of life." That, weirdly enough, was one of Le nin's favorite quotations. The striking Polish workers seem a lit tle farther than he from theory and a little closer to the green tree. In one sense they are behaving in a purely Marxian fash ion: proletarians rising up against the oppressors who contra the means of production. They have very far to go. The strikers now seem oddly like 19th century workers in Western Europe...
Camp authorities are indirectly responsible for much of the violence. To keep order in the camp, they have depended mostly on a Cuban security force armed with broom handles, tree limbs and even a few billy clubs and knives. Originally the group was supposed to be small and well organized, but scores of hardened thugs stole the force's symbol of authority-purple jackets donated by the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater-and proclaimed themselves a part of the security force called the Warhawks, after the school's nickname. Some of the Warhawks then used their weapons...