Word: thicketed
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Study halls were open air whenever the weather permitted. Said Sawney: "I would rather make my living plowing on a steep, rocky hillside with a blind mule than imprison innocent children." Part of a thicket was ruled off for the principal's "office," where malefactors met with a beech switch. When a parent criticized this "barbaric" teaching method, he replied: "I'll continue to use it as long as they keep sending me young barbarians to educate...
...Italy's Civitavecchia prison. Inmates who have been lucky enough to escape death in the Old School now wear a tie that is patterned of scars, ulcers, and a chronic condition of shakes and terror. "I dream," writes Koestler, that "I am being murdered in some kind of thicket . . .; there is a busy road at no more than ten yards distance; I scream for help, but nobody hears...
...several hundred squat, hairy, apelike men roaming the part of Europe that is now France. They were about 5 ft. 4 in. tall, and weighed about 200 Ibs.; they had huge heads, almost no necks, broad faces and pale brown eyes of metallic hardness. The women had a heavy thicket of black hair over back, chest and belly; a huge mane of hair hung from skull to waist...
...Germans had done their best to defend Ploesti with heavy smoke screens, a formidable thicket of ack-ack, a strong fleet of fighters. In addition to an unknown total of U.S. airmen killed, the number shot down and captured alive in Rumania was last week disclosed as more than a thousand. The Germans had repaired bomb damage with their usual nimbleness, had covered vital pipelines and machinery with massive roofings of concrete...
Akers chopped through a bamboo thicket, came face to face with a bull elephant, trunk raised, tusks outthrust. The beast charged, hooking viciously with a tusk, knocked the pilot beneath a bush. Stunned and suffering from a deep wound, Akers eventually regained consciousness. That night he slept under a tree. Late the next morning he dragged himself to safety, told his strange story...