Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Mohler moved ruthlessly on, stamping out every trace of the disease. It spread to the mountains of California, where no graves could be dug. John Mohler herded the cattle into canyons, blasted rock from the hillsides to cover their carcasses. It spread to deer in the Stanislaus National Forest. For twelve months, John Mohler's patient men stalked the forest, using rifles with silencers to avoid scattering the deer, killed every member of a herd of 22,000. In the two epidemics, 280,000 cattle, swine, sheep and goats were destroyed...
Carrying lightweight portable radios borrowed from the U.S. Forest Service, fire-control parties went ashore in the first waves, one party to each assault battalion. With them were Army Signal Corps officers...
Half the circuit-swank Southampton, suburban Rye, businesslike Forest Hills-will still be in the game. But the one player with top-flight memories for the gallery is likely to be 30-year-old veteran Sidney Wood. Two favorites for National Championship honors are the two-hander Francisco Segura of Ecuador and southpaw Seymour Greenberg, graduate of the public parks. At their best, none of these can touch the all-round brilliancy of Big Bill Tilden or Fred Perry, the pyrotechnic power of Ellsworth Vines, the high-gearing of Donald Budge. It will be a season of ghosts and neophytes...
...National Tournament had grown too big for Newport's fancy britches and, though the Championship Court was hastily moved to the Horse-Show ring, the event passed to Forest Hills. But the Newport Invitation carried on, with the best players and the plushiest audience. The manners of that audience have always been notorious. On the dot of the bathing hour, no matter whose the match and what the score, a sizable group of spectators would retire from the stand as if by signal. Jay Gould would stamp through the festive crowds to the court-tennis court without so much...
From the separate but coordinated Middle East Air Command, Liberators crossed the Mediterranean and struck Naples, the airdromes of Foggia and the ferry terminal at Reggio Calabria, where supplies are shunted across the Strait of Messina to Sicily. To give the Italians more trouble, the Liberators set a forest ablaze with incendiary bombs. Middle Eastern Liberators also attacked the island itself, joining Fortresses and medium bombers from western Africa in a 24-hour raid on Messina, the Sicilian terminus of the ferry run. Night-bombing Wellingtons, and heavy, medium and fighter-bombers by day, kindled and rekindled the fires...