Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation less desperate in Poland. Polish patriots may have no love for the Russians; for the Nazi despoiler they have only hate. And the Communist-dominated underground in eastern Poland may prove to be as effective as were Russia's guerrilla "armies of the forest...
Into the Jungle. One night, early in the Empress Augusta Bay operation, Sergeant Azine's company slipped into the jungle to hold a "road-block," an outpost guarding the approach to the Marines' beachhead. Miasmal swamp and forest hemmed the area. Most of the company bivouacked smack on the trail. Flank units took position in the jungle; they alone might use firearms, because they alone could shoot without danger of hitting their comrades. Marines on the trail were limited to knives, entrenching tools, fists, or any weapon that would do a job silently...
...Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story...
Carmen Jones (music by Georges Bizet; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; produced by Billy Rose) turns the opera that Sir Thomas Beecham once called "the sturdiest oak in the operatic forest" into the most brilliant show on Broadway. If Bizet's Carmen and the all-Negro Carmen Jones live, artistically, on different sides of the railroad tracks, they nevertheless represent the shortest distance between one exciting kind of job and another. Drastic changes have been made. Carmen has been retired in a kiln, not warmed over in an oven. There is no capricious tinkering for tinkering...
...Central Staff knows the total guerrilla strength, but it must run into hundreds of thousands. In the Army of the Bryansk Forest alone, 3,200 men and women won guerrilla and Red Army decorations. Other "Armies of the Forest" -between Kiev and Zhitomir (see map), in the Pripet Marshes, in White Russia and the Crimean Peninsula-are as big, or bigger...