Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unit of 25 station wagons, assembled under the direction of Cinemactor Lewis (Judge Hardy) Stone, but the unit has now been absorbed in the State Home Guard. If the regular telephone service is cut off, the Defense Council can employ two shortwave radio channels, a statewide teletype hookup, U.S. Forest Service lines, a private outlet of the Southern California Edison Co., five other wires that are kept secret...
...cadet days at Saint-Cyr to his 1940 command of France's Second Army, when he made a bitter-end stand against the Nazis at the Meuse. Marshal Pétain picked him, as a properly brave, dignified warrior, to sign the armistice with Germany in Compiegne forest...
Religion is recognized to be as dangerous as the questioning mind. In Russia, "the Orthodox Church, the Jewish synagogue, the Mohammedan mosque, the sectarian meetinghouse, have been involved in a common ruin." In Germany the extremist persecutors of the church troop back to the primeval forest to revive the fervors of Wotan worship and inspire pagan Siegfrieds to blitz the Fafnirs of "pluto-democracy." History, the record of the race, has been perverted to glorify the party, the leader, or serve the changeable politics of the total state...
...when the station graduated from experimental ranks) to $177,074 in 1940. Just for the hell of it, Mr. Hogan augmented WQXR's income in 1939 with $20,000 picked up by selling Hogan-devised sets to WQXR listeners. He was an associate of Radio Inventor Lee de Forest...
...Drummer Carrington's enthusiasm might preserve drum talking for at least a few more years in the Stanleyville neighborhood. But even in Africa change is inevitable. Today, when Quarrelsome Smith wishes to refer with his drums to a white man, he politely beats: "White man spirit from the forest." In his youth he would have walloped: "Death on the river...