Word: hedgerow
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Collins had discovered a secret weapon to get his tanks by Normandy's dense hedgerows. A sergeant in the 2nd Armored Division devised a way to attach to the front of a tank a pair of saw-toothed tusks, made from the steel barricades that once obstructed the landing beaches. These tusks could hack through a hedgerow in a few minutes...
...staid, more modest, less conspicuously "inventive." Painting, he considered, was "a branch of natural philosophy, of which my pictures are but the experiments." From Nicholas Milliard's Elizabethan miniatures through Rupert Brooke's pastoral poetry, a deep love of the particulars of landscape, nose thrust in the hedgerow, has always been central to English culture. No wonder, then, that Constable's following is large and loyal. His landscape is just what the English feel nostalgic for as they dodge trucks on the bypass amid the billboards and concrete goosenecks. It is conservatism writ in leaves and wheat...
...Every family have one acre of cow, chickens, orchard, garden, hedgerow, trees...
...died that evening was called "Doc." No one remembered his full name; because he was a medic, they had all called him Doc, and that was good enough. He had crawled out into the enemy's field of fire to drag one of the wounded into the hedgerow that was shielding the company, and he was killed by a burst from an AK-47. Men rarely cry in a spot like that, but some of them did then. That is how much they loved...
Died. Jasper ("Jap") Deeter, 78, actor, director and founder of the Hedgerow Theater in Moylan-Rose Valley, Pa.; of complications following a broken hip; in Media, Pa. A friend of Eugene O'Neill's, Deeter abandoned a career on Broadway in 1923 and set up the Hedgerow Theater in a vacant mill. Before Deeter retired as its director in 1956, Hedgerow had established itself as a training ground for such future stars as Van Heflin, Libby Holman and Richard Basehart...