Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grown suddenly alarmed, the German radio called Zhukov's attack "murderous." Soviet formations, in actions reminiscent of Belleau Wood, squeezed the Germans from the Klützer forest southeast of the city. They converged on Altdamm, four miles east of the city. Along a six-mile stretch the Russians stood looking across the mile-wide river marshes at the smoking shambles of Stettin...
Grasshoppers and Cantaloupes. In a constant search for new microscopic workers, industrial, university and Government researchers have isolated over 200,000 varieties. Useful microbes may turn up anywhere-in the air, on the water, on forest leaf mold, in city garbage cans. A potent industrial bacillus was discovered in the intestines of a grasshopper. The best strain of the mold Penicillium notatum, which makes life-saving penicillin, was first noticed on a cantaloupe rind...
...Detect and sound warnings of floods, forest fires...
...been the Third Republic's last Minister of the Interior. He had fled to Morocco after the 1940 debacle. He would rouse the Empire, he cried, to fight on. Vichy and the Gestapo nabbed and jailed him, buried him in silence. Last July, on a bypath of Fontainebleau Forest, militia of Vichy's Joseph Darnand rubbed him out in gangster style...
...pleasured themselves" indiscreetly; and there is delicate ballet in an aura of the supernatural when Lista, the Dark Witch, and Croma, the Fair Witch, jealous of Barbara Allen--"we ain't got nothin' again her, only we just as soon she's daid"--flit by John in the forest, flaunting their sensuous beauty, mocking his effort to escape the fetters of Hell and assume human form...