Word: thicket
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...artificial. He tries to bring out basic shapes that are hidden in nature's creations, and perhaps seen only by his eye. Living quietly in Connecticut, he gets his ideas from the scene around him. Says he: "I see them in a torn piece of cloud, a green thicket, or the trail of smoke from a passing train." What is Sculptor Gabo trying to say with his strange shapes? "I am trying to tell the world in this frustrated time of ours that there is beauty in spite of all the ugliness and horror. I am trying to ... call...
...airplane whose windows are too hot to touch. He is not optimistic, either, about the ultimate outcome. "The sound barrier," he says from experience, "wasn't too bad. It was sort of like jumping over a fence. But the heat barrier is like fighting your way into a thicket of thorns. The farther you get into it, the more thorns stick into...
Lieut. Mishin's remains were first interred in the enemy section of the U.N. cemetery at Pusan. Recently they were transferred to a special area labeled "nonbelligerent," only a few yards from the thicket of crosses that mark the graves of U.S. and other U.N. fighting men. Mishin's grave is the only one in the "nonbelligerent" section...
...Jacqueline Armand," Christine parachuted into southeastern France and joined the Maquis. Once a party of Germans sent a dog to flush her out of a thicket hiding place. Christine made friends with the dog and got away. Later in Italy, she was stopped by a patrol. She raised her hands showing a live grenade in each. As the Italians stood with fingers trembling on their triggers, Christine and her partner backed away and escaped...
...grim joke to be making in a land where death waits in every jungle thicket, but to the officers and men of France's famed Foreign Legion, death must be joked about. For more than a century since its founding by King Louis Philippe in 1831, the men of the Foreign Legion, the Kepis Blancs, have fought and died for France in almost continuous campaigning in Algeria, in the Crimea, in Mexico, Tonkin, Dahomey, the Sudan, Madagascar, Morocco, the Dardanelles, Syria, Serbia and France itself. In six years of fighting the Communists, more than 7,000 Legionnaires have died...