Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile front, from gloomy, blood-soaked Hürtgen Forest to the eastern bulge of Luxembourg opposite Trier, the Germans finally smashed back. They struck with more weight and fury than they had mustered at any time since their ill-fated attempt to break the Allied line at Mortain, in Normandy...
General Hodges of the First Army struck the match. He attacked at Monschau, 20 miles southwest of Düren, where he was already across the Roer headwaters in the hills. Since this area is walled off from the Düren sector by the Hürtgen Forest and other difficult terrain, it did not seem that Hodges was attempting to roll up the German line, but to draw German strength from the north, thus reduce the enemy pressure at Düren and Jülich...
...free peoples of the world gather this week to proclaim again the gospel of peace on earth. In a log hut deep in a forest north of Oslo, Norway, a man who has done as much as any other to keep Christian hope alight in the darkness of occupied Europe will celebrate Christmas, as he has for two years past, a solitary prisoner. Eivind Josef Berggrav resigned his title and position as Bishop of Oslo and Primate of Norway's State Lutheran Church, on Feb. 24, 1942. Arrested two months later by Puppet Dictator Vidkun Quisling, he has ever...
...porch vine. But southern farmers now cultivate it as a field plant to cover eroding soil. Planted from "crowns" (roots and buds), it spreads quickly, putting down new roots like strawberry runners. Its big leaves, shed each fall, eventually cover the ground with a thick, flaky carpet like a forest floor. Because it may be winterkilled by hard frosts, it has so far been grown only in the South, but the Department of Agriculture is trying to breed hardier strains...
...fighters, bombed four synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area. Only a dozen German fighters were seen, and four of these were shot down; but the flak was the thickest and deadliest that U.S. crews had ever encountered. "Flak burst in a mass," said one radioman, "a forest of it so dense that we could only get occasional glimpses of the formations ahead of us. It was a solid wall at the target...