Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DOROTHEA ANDERSON Highland Park, Mich...
...frost woke me and my two Partisan guards at dawn on May 26 in the primeval forest of the Yavorusha Mountain. We climbed the ankle-deep carpet of dry leaves up to the top, and all around us the thick highland woods teemed with refugees and lowing cattle...
...picked another natural field for June 2. No luck, again. Just as the tightlipped, bomb-scarred squadron leader was measuring off the new landing ground, machine guns burst out on a nearby hill and the order came, "Pokret." The Germans, guided by the Chetniks, were breaking into the highland. At dusk 60 Partisan gunners held off the nearest group of 400 Germans at a ridge while our single file slithered west into the woods...
...Harding quotes the volume Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry for a description of this curious scion of a wild boar and a native highland sow. The pig was "a tall, loose species, with legs of an unusual length, with no flesh, short ears, as if they had been cropped, and with long faces of a highly intellectual cast. They were also of such activity -that few greyhounds could clear a ditch or cross a field with more agility or speed. Their backs formed a rainbow arch, capable of being contracted or extended to an inconceivable degree...
...nice fantasy idea, handled with a nice sense for prankish complications, A Highland Fling just isn't written with enough gusto or grace. Its romantic moods never quite blend Scotland with fairyland; the thistle is there, but not the thistledown. And its fun is too often tame and even cute - a sort of A. A. Milne version of Tam O'Shanter...