Word: forest
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...learn in the opening moments of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle that the eponymous heroes of Jay Ward's beloved (and weirdly iconic) '60s television series have retreated to their home turf, Frostbite Falls; that their typical residual check has dwindled to 3.5[cents]; that the pretty forest where they once romped has been reduced to stumps...
...their planes into aircraft carriers off Okinawa; American G.I.s blown to bits by 16-in. mortar shells in Tarawa; a Japanese woman throwing her baby and then herself off a cliff in Saipan rather than surrender; the frozen bodies of American G.I.s massacred by German SS in the Ardennes Forest; the beaten carcass of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini hanging by his heels in a square in Milan; and, of course, the emaciated corpses of slaughtered Jews piled up like cords of wood at Dachau...
...Fifties, Wilbur Jordan? Seventeen years in office, and all he got were some lousy tract houses on Shepard Street named after him. Nathan Pusey got a pile of books stored underground. If Rudy doesn't snag the Memorial Hall Tower, I say grab it. Or how about the Fineberg Forest? Start brainstorming, Harvey. A presidency is a terrible thing to waste...
...Facts. Matthew, a roommate of groom-to-be Matthew Peed, lives in Adams House. Kelly graduated this May from Wake Forest University with a degree in biology. The couple will be married in a Catholic Mass on June 24 in Pittsburgh, their hometown. They will spend their honeymoon in West Palm Beach...
...Frederic, whom the spirit moved to paint, in the 1890s, an enormous three-parter called The Stream, an allegory of the Life-Force (Henri Bergson was a hot philosopher circa 1900) in the form of thousands, thousands, of pink, roly-poly babies cascading down Alpine waterfalls and through a forest glade. This condommaker's nightmare took 10 years to paint (no wonder, with all that dimpled piglet flesh) and was regarded not only as Frederic's masterpiece but also as an utterance of deep, deep depth...