Word: cactuses
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...shall . . . [enjoy] the ecstasy of the starry stillness of an Arizona desert night or viewing the scarlet glory of her blossoming cactus," cried oratorical Henry Fountain Ashurst at the finish of his Senatorial career two years ago. For 29 years in Washington the sesquipedalian Senator had dreamed aloud about the home state he so rarely saw. Last week the Arizona Tax Commission had a demand from him for a $72 refund. A year ago, he pointed out, he had established residence in the District of Columbia...
...seemed to be exploding everywhere. Machine-gun fire was deadly. It was raining heavily and all over the place bombs were bursting in the rain. We slipped and rolled in the mud. Some of our lads did terrific work with the machetes they had used to cut through the cactus hedges. They lopped down dozens of the enemy. Then we would dive on them and crash to the ground, arms locked, trying to find their throats or get our knives working...
...swinging their whole line north and westward to escape annihilation. General George S. Patton's soa-in-law, Lieut. Colonel Johnny Waters, led one armored force to Djebel Lessoude, rescued isolated infantrymen from destruction. By midweek thousands of Allied vehicles were rolling west over sand hills and cactus patches-trucks, tanks, jeeps, two-wheeled carts, the jackass baggage trains of tired French Zouaves and Senegalese...
...Cactus and Rattlesnakes. Hayward raised $30,000 from rich clients like James Stewart and Henry Fonda, bought a small civilian school at Phoenix, hired six instructors. A little later he bought a one-mile desert tract outside the city, ploughed out the cactus and rattlesnakes, built a palacelike Air Corps training center with pastel-colored buildings, olive orchards, tennis courts and bright red Thunderbird insignia over everything. The first Thunderbird graduates got their diplomas only four months after the desert was broken, had a bang-up graduation party with pretty Hollywood starlets, listened to Hoagy Carmichael (also a Southwest stockholder...
...When bird nesting in Bihar [India]," he writes, "I was strolling alongside a high, dense cactus hedge when my attention was drawn to a bird [female cuckoo] flying up from behind over my head and settling on the ground about 25 paces beyond me. I ran up to within about ten paces, screened from her sight by a bush, and then saw she was sitting quietly on a small mound, back to me and quite motionless. Presently I saw her put her head down and her shoulders heave, as if she were being sick, and then immediately...