If we sever the tree at the center (or centers), we obtain two subtrees.
The car then sideswiped one tree at midblock, spun around and struck a parked Land Rover 20 feet farther on, spun around again and severed a second tree, then shot into a lamppost at 62nd Street.
Hard wind and rain on the evening of Oct. 25 severed a massive tree near its base, and its expansive branches covered the whole of the Roselle Park sandbox.
Most phone lines, power lines and poles were destroyed, and water lines were severed by uprooted trees.
I always assumed the tree actually severed the main trunk line to the whole town, but local calls within the same exchange still worked.
But a donkey?" He looked back again at the mulberry trees, cruelly severed but not altogether useless.
A tree trunk was severed by chain saw and hauled away with other evidence in a rented U-Haul truck.
Investigators said shattered bottles of rum and malt liquor were found in the mangled wreckage of the car, a white Ford Taurus, which veered left at the exit ramp at 61st Street, entered a one-way service road in the wrong direction and struck obstacles with such force that it severed the trunk of a tree more than a foot in diameter.
When she debuted her new high register on White Chalk, it sounded tremulous and spooked: here it's almost blank-eyed as she details The Words That Maketh Murder's battlefield carnage: soldiers falling "like lumps of meat", trees hung with severed limbs.
Now, severed branches shrouded the red-felt tree skirt as a Grinch-like new form, the Christmas Stick, emerged, looking like the logo from the Lizzie Borden Christmas Spectacular.
