Word: meadow
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...past, Arboretum officials had difficulty keeping visitors off the tree, which graces Meadow Road, Del Tredici said...
...testify to the genius of marketing moguls, since they have persuaded people to ignore nature's essential nature. Michael Pollan, a writer and gardener of the old school, argues rightly that nature abhors a garden: left to its own devices, your yard will revert to forest or swamp or meadow in a matter of years, if not months. But at the same time, if you are willing to do the work...
...sounded, but the planes were not targeting a little town of no industrial or military significance. For me and my neighborhood friends, the most dramatic exposure to reality came the day a Luftwaffe Me-109 fighter slipped low over the houses, its engine silent, and crashed in a nearby meadow. We raced after it, a passel of kids looking for adventure. By the time we got to the landing site, rescuers had pulled the pilot from the cockpit-dead. The aircraft had so many bullet holes it looked like a sieve. We were stunned into silence...
...after the war, in 1945 and 1946. Another reason is that industrialization, avidly pursued during the years of communist rule in Prague, has stripped much of the land of its character. West of Decin, where we had crossed the Elbe, there is a new bridge, but the forest and meadow-the green countryside I remembered-have yielded to smokestack and factory, pipeline and drab worker housing. Lignite mining has left massive scars and transformed vast stretches of land into a moonscape. "This looks like the end of the war," Lubos said, pointing to one jagged excavation. Pollution haze darkened...
...remote meadow in northern Michigan, inside a large tent heated by a wood stove, 50 white men dressed in combat gear and wielding rifles talk about the insanity of the outside world. The men, civilians all, see threats everywhere. There are reports of foreign soldiers hiding in salt mines under Detroit, some of the men say. Others speak of secret markings on highway signs meant to guide conquering armies. The men's voices subside as "General" Norman Olson, a Baptist minister, gun-shop owner and militia leader, enters the tent. He tells the men they are the shock troops...