Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starter, Dr. De Kock & Co. plan to drive every last wild animal in a 400-square-mile area - kudu, wildebeests, wart hogs, hyenas, zebras, duikers, baboons, storks, vultures, rats - into a small game reserve deep in the forest. They will not be slaughtered, though many surely will be killed before the drive ends. Ultimately the reserve will be ringed by a cordon sanitaire of cleared ground, two miles wide, which the tsetse presumably will not cross...
...hated the Germans, forbade Nazi meetings and strove to rouse and train our youth for the fight I knew must come. . . . When war came and our front broke, I was left with a broken-spirited people and with a legacy of rottenness of two decades. I went into the forest and told the people to hide their weapons. ... At that time only England and I were still...
...opening new producing regions, the inter-American highway is revolutionizing Central American economy. In Costa Rica, peons are burning down primeval forest to make way for cornfields. In Nicaragua, rich cattle, sugar and tobacco regions are being brought next door to consumers. And there are political possibilities: once the six now-isolated Central American republics are joined by the new highway, the century-old dream of a Central American Federation might come true...
...amateur, each in his day had been king. Now, as professionals, everybody still wanted to be king. It took amateur tennis' top-drawer West Side Tennis Club at Forest Hills, N.Y. to get the pros all together last week. The royal dozen of pro tennis and some 40 smaller fry had it out at Forest Hills in the19th national professional tennis championship, and the first one that ever really amounted to anything...
...through the week at Forest Hills, Budge seemed not to be fighting just his immediate opponent, but also getting his strokes in shape for the finals. When the day came, Riggs unveiled a new, blistering serve that had Budge shaking his head in despair. Riggs seldom tried, a forcing shot, but kept whipping the ball back with exasperating steadiness. Budge became so demoralized in the second set that he served three double faults in one game. The score...