Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little People. Lacandones rarely grow more than five feet tall. No more than 200 of them survive. Their thatched huts are hidden deep in the forest, approached by secret paths. They are hunters and farmers. But they work only when and as they please. When they want to do nothing, they do nothing...
...jingly, woodsy brand of folk music, sing "come-all-yez" and tell tall tales of the timberland. Favorites are "The Breaking of the Northwest Boom" and "The Days of Paddy Gillis." Best line in "Paddy Gillis" runs: "They who spat upon their hands and pushed the forest back...
...Germany. The private joined the Liberation Movement. When the Allies invaded Sicily, the Germans were using Trieste as an embarkation point for southern Italy. Each day for a month the private and his fellow Partisans cut the German-controlled railroad from Ljubljana to Trieste. The Germans cut down the forest on either side of the right of way, installed high-tension wires, built pillboxes every 500 yards. But the breaks continued, and all that month the Germans had to march their troops the 60 miles to Trieste...
...product developed from research begun by the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory. The impregnating material, called methylolurea, is made principally from two cheap, plentiful chemicals-urea and formaldehyde-which are synthesized from coal, air and water. In the impregnating process, wood is pressed and soaked in a methylolurea solution, which is converted by the wood's acids into hard, insoluble resins. The wood becomes brittle, but this disadvantage can be partly offset by impregnating only the outer part of the wood, leaving a resilient core...
...rhymes with carpet) was born (1875) in the little Hampshire parish of Tongham, which served the military camp Queen Victoria had recently established at Aldershot. Garbett's father was vicar. Tongham lies near the chalk downs of Salisbury Plain and the heather-and-fir country of the New Forest. Here, until he was 23, Cyril Garbett lived with his three brothers and one sister (all raised on his father's midget salary). Later Cyril Garbett decided to follow his father, grandfather, and two uncles into the Church of England...