Word: shrub
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...night he huddled against the shrub-grown creek bank for warmth. "But it was so cold, every night it was so cold, and the mosquitoes and bugs were terrible. Once I heard footsteps and four North Vietnamese went by. One of them looked me right in the eye and pointed his rifle at me. I raised my wounded hand and shook my head no. I don't know why, but he lowered his rifle and walked away. He was so young -just a boy, no more than...
...world seems full of traps and tortures. Night after night, as he makes his way home through a neighboring cluster of houses, two huge dogs vault a fence and savagely escort him, his wrist held wetly in the lead dog's teeth. Caterpillars munch away half of every shrub and tree on the place. "This house has been standing here for thirty years with whole shrubs," Stern moans. "We're in it a month and there are halves...
...concubines, but in the last years of his life his potency declined, and he had unsuccessful recourse to rejuvenation treatments by a Swiss doctor. His luckless harem consoled itself with sorties into lesbianism and erotic gadgets sent from Japan. Like many Yemenites, Ahmad chewed qat, a narcotic shrub similar to marijuana, and switched to morphine in 1953-heroically breaking the habit six years later...
...still resembles that of a shallow sea bottom, raised at the edges by a saucer-rim of mountains, with few barriers against wind or sun. The flat landscape is banded by four distinct regions-the icy northern shelf of the tundra, where nothing grows except moss, lichen and dwarf shrub; the dense forest zone, or the taiga, where arctic birches sprout beside palm trees; the steppe, a black earth meadowland which, when properly farmed, is among the most productive soils in the world; and farthest south, the deserts. In this overwhelming setting, Russia made its way much...
Happy Hunter Johnson celebrated his kill in traditional German fashion. First, his guide solemnly removed his hat, plucked two twigs from the nearest shrub. He placed one in the dead bird's beak, dipped the other in the wound and stuck it in Johnson's hatband to symbolize the bond between hunter and hunted. The two men squatted bareheaded on the ground, observed 15 minutes of silence in memory of the fallen grouse. Then Johnson slung his 10-lb. prize over his shoulder and headed for a taxidermist. For though the Auerhahn makes a fine trophy...