Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the face of the earth to bring back dead bodies to this country [TIME, April 14] seems to me not only wantonly wasteful but unchristian as well. Do the sweethearts, wives and mothers of these dead have to have their loved ones' bodies in Forest Lawn or Mineola cemetery in order to preserve their memory? Better to spend the money and effort in extending help to the still living in the war-ravished countries, as a living memorial to those men, and thus make future wars such as they died in less probable...
...rainy mist sweeps gently o'er the village by the stream, When from the leafy forest glades the brigand daggers gleam . . . And yet there is no need to fear or step from out their way, For more than half the world consists of bigger rogues than they...
Long-awaited plans for a Memorial to Harvard men who died in the Second World War have crystallized with the recent appointment of the Saltonstall alumni committee to make a concrete recommendation in the near future. Deluged by suggestions ranging from a dedicated forest to international student fellowships, the committee faces both an ethical and an economic problem...
...over for Poland's ludzie lesni (forest people). Last week hundreds of men and boys, singly and in straggling groups, came out of the woods, trudged to the nearest police station and surrendered their arms and themselves. Many had been underground since Poland's defeat in 1939. They had fought the Germans, the Russians and the postwar Polish Government they hated...
...that none of the early bathers overstayed their allotted time). During Midsummer Night, they would swarm through their vast woods by the thousands, singing wild songs that echoed over the countryside's countless lakes. Now the silent Lithuanian woods harbor the bitter "brethren of the forest," i.e., anti-Russian guerrillas...