Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...canyons and even along the fringes of the forbidding brown mountains. One of the farthest reaches of the commuter turned out to be the little colony of Malibu, built some 30 traffic-tangled miles from the heart of Los Angeles, at a point along Highway 101A where the brush-covered Santa Monica Mountains drop down to the Pacific. One reason for Malibu's attractiveness: when other parts of Los Angeles County are stifling with smog (partly abetted by the exhaust fumes from the county's 2,500,000 cars), Malibu, a jutting beach area, is swept clean...
Greener Mansions. Late one night last week the winds, whipping across the tinder-dry, drought-grey brush and scrubland of the foothills, picked up a flicker of fire on the slope called Zuma Ridge. Instantly, a mass of blood-red flames burst forth like an explosion. Soon, the winds pushed the flames down the ridge toward the highway and the sea, then fanned the flames north and east, chewing up everything that lay in their path...
...week's end the brush fires, burning low, had killed one man, injured 75 (mostly firefighters), blackened 40,000 acres, leveled 67 homes and other structures. Estimated cost of the damage to buildings and land: $100 million...
...August, hailed the correspondents' arrival in Peking as a Worthy cause. While they have grudgingly gone along with the State Department's ban, they see little point in its contention that lifting the ban would prejudice attempts to free U.S. prisoners held by the Chinese. Newsmen also brush aside the State Department's argument that reporters in China might be held as hostages. They are willing to waive any potential claim against the U.S. Government-as Bill Worthy did-in the event that the Communists jail them...
...until three in the morning. Now my world was reduced to my home, my farm, my hills. I lived more closely with my wife, my daughter, my animal friends. I thought more deeply of my God." And implicit in the book is the strongly held feeling that the close brush with death was well worth the cost...