Word: terraine
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...each into boughs. Many single wires are twisted for the bare branches of other trees. Hardwood trees. One man making figures of wax for the big model; leaves them naked. Musculature must be correct before they can be clothed. To a corner to examine the unfinished model. Its plastic terrain has been completed and part of the surface painted. Trees have been soldered and painted according to colored sketches. The background is in place. All very pretty and like a real forest. Even to the country dirt road and stone fence. S--shows me pictures of finished models...
Then there are, as there are on every golf course, long rolly fairways which give the cross-country addict plenty of opportunity for developing his legs and wind on average terrain...
...this time the forces of Generalissimo Franco, consisting of tough Spanish Foreign Legionnaires, non-Spanish speaking Moors who had put on layers of sweaters against the high-altitude cold, and regular Spanish Army troops had advanced into the suburbs of Madrid over a terrain on which battling females of the Red Militia had abandoned vanity cases, high-heeled slippers and powder puffs. This proletarian resistance was brave but it was scarcely war. When a wave of advancing Moors were suddenly faced by Red machine guns which popped up out of a trench they simply flung themselves prostrate and waited calmly...
...cause behind the mysterious blunder at Balaklava, Screenwriters Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh have arbitrarily chosen for their stage the tried & true terrain of Northern India. Here, in 1850, Captain Geoffrey Vickers saves the life of Surat Khan in a leopard hunt the day before the Khan learns that the British Government has discontinued his fat subsidy. Months later, Geoffrey reaps the reward of his good turn. When the Khan's tribesmen have surrounded the military outpost at Chukoti, Geoffrey and the girl (Olivia de Havilland) who loves his brother are the only members of the garrison who survive...
...defending Irun the proletarian militia supporting the Government, which had been deserted by most of its Army, carefully mined the terrain over which it was thought Generalissimo Franco's forces must advance. This trap was betrayed to the White forces by their sympathizers in the Government camp fortnight ago, and last week they were able to avoid it and get down to straight fighting...