Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roared overhead. Coast Guard cutters put-putted up & down river. Bloodhounds sniffed along the western shore. It was still only 9 a.m. when William Mullen, veteran woodsman and member of the Palisades Interstate Park Police, leading a posse along the side of Hook Mountain, heard a noise in the brush and saw a flash of white shirt. "You're surrounded," a posseman hollered. "Put up your hands." All fight gone out of them, Riordan and McGale stumbled out, gave...
...most neutral people in Europe today are the fighting Irish. Last week as two hemispheres held their breath watching the racing brush fire of World War II sweep across the Balkans and Africa, tradition-steeped Irish were very busy honoring the heroes of a strictly private fight of 25 years...
Last week Sir Archibald Wavell arrived at the scene of action, looked at the maps of relative positions, ordered a column to undertake a daring advance along a brush-covered gorge bottom. This the column accomplished, surprising the Italians into a fear of being surrounded...
With the coming vacation offering an opportunity for them to brush up on their chips and drives, candidates for the golf team are preparing themselves for an arduous, seven-match season...
...ordinary assortment of Mack Gordon-Harry Warren tunes sung against a background of beautiful girls. Of the Brazilian characters, only the Baron's rival broker (J. Carrol Naish) has a trace of perfidy and that is gently masked. Since Miss Faye as the Baroness with a brush of Brooklyn in her accent prefers the Latin Don Ameche to the U. S. duplicate, and since the U S Ameche prefers Carmen Miranda, Pan-American attraction is adequately proved. That Night in Rio should convince Latins that the yanquis are trying to be good albeit slightly dreamy and gushing, neighbors...