Word: regrowth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian industrial and agricultural suicide, minerals could not be wrecked in the ground, fertile fields could not be set afire. Hitler was presumably not trying to conquer Russia just for the day or the year. The question remained as to what he might get, given a reasonable time for regrowth and repairs. Generalizations could be made about an imagined conquest of European Russia (west of the Urals) if Asiatic Russia, from the Urals to the Pacific, remained in the hands of a refugee Russian Government...
...island was a subject of various European nations during the last 1,100 years, its timber was exploited until its hills lay rock-naked as its lava wastes. New forests never grew because, in winter, shepherds would turn out their hungry flocks, which gnawed groves of saplings, preventing the regrowth of natural forests...
...mentality? Would it send him seeking Mary in whatever far-distant corner of the earth he had encountered her? Suppose he subsequently developed tinnitus [ringing in the ears], would voices whisper 'Mary'? Would the skinned portion of Mary be replaced with an undecorated regrowth. . . .? Would I be liable for damages in this event...