Word: lush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's fourth atom ic detonation and the cradle of the hydrogen bomb. It has been 22 years since the atoll's docile people were banished by the atom, and gentling nature and the passage of time have leached away Bikini's residual radiation. Lush vegetation once more covers the island. Through their long exile, most of it on inhospitable, isolated, mosquito-plagued Kili Island, the 300 or so Bikinians have huddled in a beachfront slum, longing for their beloved strand of islets around a life-sustaining lagoon. They still cannot go home. The U.S. Defense Department...
TUNC, by Lawrence Durrell. Lush Mediterranean settings, evocative nature writing and ribald wit are the underpinnings of this exuberant novel about an omniscient computer and its inventor's ambiguous struggles for freedom...
Heart of Hué. Some 25 miles to the southwest of Hue lies the A Shau Valley, a lush, weird world of fogs and swirling mists during ten months of the year. Some 25 miles long, the valley floor is 2,000 ft. above sea level. The jagged, spiny peaks on either side rise 5,000 ft. to 6,000 ft. and are covered with a triple-canopy jungle 100 ft. tall. Ever since a U.S. Special Forces camp was overrun in the valley in March of 1966, only furtive U.S. reconnaissance patrols have set foot in it. The North...
...royalties of 100 to 500 on each bush they sell. "We are a research laboratory whose sole purpose is to create beautiful roses," says Alain, as he points proudly to the family's 15 acres of greenhouses and gardens on the French Riviera's lush Cap d'Antibes...
...lighting, by Bob Harlow and Sergio Modigliani (they are responsible, I suppose, both for the spots and the splendid slides) exhibits much the same winning qualities as does the dancing. The colors are lush, the patterns interesting, but success again depends on a very well-marked sense of timing and rhythm...