Word: lush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Sun's chartered airplane, Berton reported he saw no lush vegetation and no great herds of fat animals, only awesome, rugged country buried under deep snow, "a handful of hot springs" and the frozen Virginia Falls, 316 ft. high. After flying 15 miles through a canyon whose sheer walls rose to 1,500 feet, the plane landed on its skis in the valley itself, a great bowl set amid the mountains. There was no living thing in sight, not even the fearsome character who (the legend said) cut off the heads of explorers and prospectors. All Berton...
...deep woods that surround it. No reasons are given, beyond Farmer Robinson's obvious terror. Nath and the farmer's adopted child (Allene Roberts), thus forbidden, cannot resist trying to find out what it's all about. They are variously hindered by Nath's lush sweetheart (Julie London) and her sinister spare-time boy friend (Rory Calhoun). Their quest for the core of the farmer's terror results, first of all, in some effectively staged ghost fear: Nath's exploration of the dark, wind-lashed, screaming woods. As the youngsters keep exploring, they...
Prospectors told of a lush almost tropical country where the river never froze even when the temperature sank to 50 below in the surrounding mountains. Great herds of fat deer and caribou, they said, cropped the green pastures. Last week the tales had grown so fantastic that the Vancouver Sun's columnist, Jack Scott, burlesqued the Nahanni as a "bodyless valley where ripe bananas hang from the boughs of pine trees [and] dusky native girls swim about in the deep, warm pools...
...Even from the air, the valley seems a lonely and lovely place amid the jagged escarpments (see cut). The University of Alberta's exploring Professor Alan E. Cameron, who entered the valley in 1936, explained the mild climate; chinooks (warm winds) keep the air balmy and moist. The lush grass attracts game and hot springs help warm the air. Also gold had been found there...
...shoes. Into Terry and the wartime Male Call (for the G.I. press) Caniff poured fast-breaking dialogue, credible adventure - and one touch of Venus. He knocked himself out to make his brain children (he has no others) seem real. His Dragon Lady, Burma and Miss Lace were fashioned after lush, living models. (Steve Canyon's mean and sexy villainess, Copper Calhoon, was drawn from a model, Carol Ohmart, "Miss Utah...