Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampstead Heath; a short distance from town ten carnival shows were running at once, complete with carousels and gypsy sideshows. Frenchmen made for the country too. Pierre Chander, who works at the War Ministry, took his family to Fontainebleau. They visited the chateau and went for walks in the forest. Back at work with a sunburned nose, Chander said: "Ça me donne du courage. Now I can put in a good week's work...
Against this beauty a sinister but obviously not thoroughly bad force wages its fight. The darkness of the nights, the denseness of the forest, and the character of the Beast are evil, but an evil through which good is always trying to burst...
Lightning's wild blue incandescence lit western Texas, northeastern Kansas and the panhandle of Oklahoma. The storm moved northeast. Before dawn of the day before spring, tornadoes began whirling out of it, like bursts of flame from a moving forest fire...
Marauding Bears. Liberty Hyde Bailey, born during the Buchanan administration, was raised in the Michigan wilderness, on a farm his father hacked out of the forest. His family fought off marauding bears, learned to weave their own cloth, make their own soap and candles, tan their own leather, grow or hunt their own food. The elder Bailey was a Puritan, who liked being 52 miles from a postoffice (mail once a week, he thought, was quite enough), and had to approve every book young Lib read, except Pilgrim's Progress and the Bible. Once Lib brought home The Origin...
...escape civilization, 37-year-old Graves spends most of his time in the woods or on the cliffs of Washington's Puget Sound. Lately he and a young Nisei friend named Yonemitsu Arashiro have been living in a forest lean-to and doing what they call "rock painting," which is not painting at all. Graves and Yonemitsu load heavy rocks on their truck, haul them to their backyard, then spend days wrestling the huge boulders into arrangements that please them...